From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-09 17:53:41
Johan Johansson wrote:
>That sounds like a local convention to me. Actually it sounds like
>something a C programmer would think to me. Why pass anything by pointer
>unless you have to?
>
>
I think Bjarne Stroustrup expressed this sentiment once, although I
personally disagree.
The reason is simple: call-by-reference and call-by-value have no
visible difference at the call site, which could therefore make changes
to the arguments unexpected.
Sebastian Redl