The Myth of Smart Pointers – Logikal Blog
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On page 206 of Beginning C++17 ISBN: 9781484233665 published in 2018 you will find the following about smart pointers.
  • lysdexic@programming.devOPMEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    and a subtle typo

    What example can you give to illustrate that claim?

    or innocent assumption

    That sounds like an euphemism for “I don’t know what I’m doing, so I pin my mistakes on my tools”.

    can lead to catastrophic failures that might only surface in 0.0001% of the times that a certain line of code is run.

    I struggle to tell if you are serious.

    • 5C5C5C@programming.dev
      2·
      1 year ago

      What example can you give to illustrate that claim?

      [& var1, var2](){
    /* ... */
}

      when you meant to type

      [&, var1, var2](){
    /* ... */
}

      can lead to data races in multithreaded contexts, undefined behavior, and sporadic crashing.

      I struggle to tell if you are serious.

      I think you’ve never written multithreaded or async C++ code. Or anything particularly complex if you’re unfamiliar with the issues that I’m bringing up.