Tender is the night

For the first time in like weeks, I've woken up feeling less tired than when I went to bed. A miracle. Since I was watching the Mothman Prophercies just before going to sleep, maybe I should write to the Vatican in an attempt to like get doctor_squale's good friend Richard Gere canonised.

Reserved means reserved, damn it

Today's source of immense irritation: people who use C++ reserved keywords in system header files. For example:

struct florp { int foo; int bar; int using; int baz; } florp_t;

Spot the problem yet?

Luckily, there's a dark and nasty hack to get around the problem. Take a copy of the broken header file, modify it to remove the annoying clash, then add an '#include "florp.h"' at the very start of the source file, so that overloads the broken system header file (assuming that the developers didn't mess up the whole idempotent header file thing as well as the keyword thing). Of course, anything that actually uses the variable is going to fail, but hey, that's tough.