what's the difference between

template<typename T>
auto add1(const T& a, const T& b)
{ return a + b; }

and

template<typename T>
auto add2(T a, const T& b)
{ return a += b; }

?

#cpp

@mew27 understandable, after all javascript is C for pussies...

1 + {} = "1[Object object]"

@namark @mew27

They're two different animals. C was developed for minicomputers that had teletypes and terminals connected to them. It was created so programmers didn't have to write everything in assembly language.

Javascript was written a couple decades later, shortly after the browser was invented, when personal computers were just beginning to become connected via the World Wide Web (WWW). They made Javascipt to run in the client browser so that web pages could be more interactive.

(But perhaps you just make the comparison so you could make the joke. :)

@Pat same philosophy, same quirky realization, same syntax, same primitives, same usage patterns... if you like one you'll like the other, sans prejudice.

@mew27