Generally this is reasonable advice although I would not have stated it quite so emphatically.

Most of the time when I type * in my own C++ code, what I mean is:

    "hey! this is an in/out parameter!".

Good thing that the author provided such an exhaustive list of arguments supporting his opinions. Oh wait. Between using pointers and the standard library, I think that I will stick with pointers.

Trying to "post" a "link"?

broken link