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by tialaramex 1 day ago
> I haven't had those problems for years

About twelve months ago, Bjarne wrote a paper named "21st Century C++" for WG21. In that paper Bjarne begins with a 10 line C++ listing which he says is equivalent to a fairly trivial awk program. It's a needlessly bad program which in fact has Undefined Behaviour, as I pointed out here (on HN) at the time.

So when Bjarne says he hasn't had this problem, you can take that one of these ways:

1. Bjarne doesn't understand that "this problem" includes all UB, meaning he is grossly incompetent, you should disregard his opinion about this stuff.

2. Bjarne is deliberately lying to you, he knows he still has this problem but for whatever reason he wants you to believe he fixed it. You should disregard his opinion about this stuff.

3. Bjarne is too ignorant to even recognise that his program has UB, once again you should disregard his opinion about this stuff.