On Sun, 30 Apr 2023 at 20:40, Marc Glisse <marc.glisse_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> >> Well then perhaps worth mentioning is that libstdc++ (at least) has something like it today. This is std::vector::operator[] from libstdc++
> >
> > It's perhaps worth considering that some teaching approaches don't
> > require a particular environment and implementation, and don't
> > want to spend time figuring out the same tooling solutions for
> > multiple implementations.
>
> Comparing the one-time cost of figuring out some flags for the 3 major
> implementations (for some it may be as easy as selecting "debug mode" in
> an IDE, which may even be the default, and a suitable list probably
> already exists in a few places on the web) vs the time saved in debugging,
> I'd recommend carefully evaluating this decision.

I don't see how it's a one-time cost when the setup/config operation
needs to be performed by N students on M workstations.