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It might be an absolutely adequate method. Imagine that is C++. operator-- is overloaded and controls some machinery. You can't just command capacity = currSize. Process is important.
that's why c++ gets bullied
That is why it is loved: it allows you to use ideas/objects the same way as you do as an engineer. Super cool.
Until the next person with a slightly different mental way of defining things comes along. Or just a future version of you.
yes, but in this particular case I wouldn't want to second guess my decrement operation just happens to also be calling the white house or whatnot. Just make a method.
It is a method!
thanks
That's just life of a C++ programmer: you second guess everything, and there are still optimization you haven't tried, and pitfalls you haven't got into
But when you do shoot yourself in the foot, it blows your whole leg off.
As a shotgun. That's why people don't shoot themselves in the foot with a shotgun.