learn C++ or C#

[Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]]

Re: learn C++ or C#

Arne Vajhøj wrote:

Ben Voigt [C++ MVP] wrote:

>>>static classes - missing
>>I don't understand this. Are you saying that C# didn't get to use
>>"static" when declaring a class until 2.0? That doesn't sound right
>>to me. I'm also not clear on what you mean by "missing" with
>>respect to Java, since you can effectively create a static class in
>>Java just as easily in C#.
>>>
>>I must be misunderstandin g what you mean by "static
>>classes"...pl ease elaborate.

>>
>Java and C# use the term "static class" in totally different ways. In C#,
>a nested class definition provides privileged access to
>private members of the parent when properly addressed using a parent
>reference, and to generic argument of the parent, but not an
>instance of the parent. In Java, a nested class definition creates
>an "inner class" which is bound to an instance of the parent, sort
>of like the closure that C# uses for anonymous methods. In Java,
>"static class" is used to create a nested class that isn't also an
>"inner class".

>
I don't think anyone in the discussion was thinking about Java
"static nested class" or "static member class".
>
They are practically never referenced as just "static class".

The phrase "static class" appears in the source code... the use of the
keyword 'static' in that context is already taken.

>
Arne

[Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]]

Re: learn C++ or C#

Those hard to find memory overwrites you can get in C/C++ or

mysterious memory leaks is not possible in C#.

The information you have about C# sounds like the marketing drivel Microsoft
puts out, not experience. Anyway, I invite you to read
http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/ and then come back and repeat "Those mysterious
memory leaks are not possible in C#" with a straight face. She's documented
a large number of memory leaks, both in Microsoft and in user code.

Also google for "C# static event memory leak".