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fneddy@nixCraft
C programmer here. Luckily there is no pass by reference in C 🤗. Also please use pass by copy as often as possible. It makes things much more easy to debug.
Red Shirt Dude
Inuk@fneddy @nixCraft C is easy also, const ref if you don't mutate, ref if you do, pointer if you're interopping with C
Daniel Marius Tripp@nixCraft do people actually do non global variables in bash scripts??? Asking for a neutral friend...
BonkersAt that stage, you normally change the language. Perl or python, for example.
Aemstuz@nixCraft and smart pointers…
Anton Puolakka@nixCraft aahh, so lame here.
I expected to see some kind of 'is NULL a value?' typish flame-war. (context: SQL, not C preprocessor)
Gantua@nixCraft Easy:
if (the function will consume/own the object) {
pass instance using move-construction;
} else if (the function will keep a reference that it does not own) {
pass by std::shared_ptr or possibly std::weak_ptr;
} else if (the parameter is optional) {
pass by pointer and check for null;
} else {
pass by reference;
}
Julian Andres Klode 🏳️🌈
ringo2k@nixCraft wait? There is a difference? 
LambdaDuck@nixCraft so much easier in rust! the compiler will complain if you use the wrong one or use it in an unsafe way