How to Use Class Template Argument Deduction--Stephan T. Lavavej

By Adrien Hamelin | Oct 12, 2018 11:45 AM | Tags: intermediate c++17

Progress.

How to Use Class Template Argument Deduction

by Stephan T. Lavavej

From the article:

Class Template Argument Deduction (CTAD) is a C++17 Core Language feature that reduces code verbosity. C++17’s Standard Library also supports CTAD, so after upgrading your toolset, you can take advantage of this new feature when using STL types like std::pair and std::vector. Class templates in other libraries and your own code will partially benefit from CTAD automatically, but sometimes they’ll need a bit of new code (deduction guides) to fully benefit. Fortunately, both using CTAD and providing deduction guides is pretty easy, despite template metaprogramming’s fearsome reputation!

Word Counting in C++: Implementing a Simple Word Counter--Jonathan Boccara

By Adrien Hamelin | Oct 12, 2018 11:36 AM | Tags: intermediate community

Useful to learn.

Word Counting in C++: Implementing a Simple Word Counter

by Jonathan Boccara

From the article:

Word counts can reveal information about your code, or make an unknown piece of code more expressive to your eyes.

There are online tools to count words in generic text, but most of those I’ve come across are designed around counting words in text and SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Since analysing source code is not the same thing as analysing the text of a blog post, let’s design a tool fit for our needs of counting words in code. This way, we will be able to make it evolve when we discover new tasks to try with our word counter.

Another reason to write our own word counter is that it will let us practice interface design, and also STL algorithms, which are useful to master for coding in C++.

For this first version of our word counter, the objective will be to put together a working prototype. Then we will improve it over future posts, by adding features and by refining its implementation...

C++ Links #6—Bartlomiej Filipek and Wojciech Razik

By bfilipek | Oct 12, 2018 07:56 AM | Tags: None

The next episode of the 'most useful C++ links' is now available:

C++ Links #6

by Bartlomiej Filipek and Wojciech Razik

From the article:

Welcome to new C++ Links - most important and useful articles, podcasts and videos that happen between 6th and 12th of October.

Today you will find a link to Core Guidelines rules about Concepts, a long article about C++17 class template deduction and a video that shows how inline keyword is taken into account by the compiler. At the end, you will also find a bonus!

std::any: How, when, and why--Casey Carter

By Adrien Hamelin | Oct 8, 2018 10:45 AM | Tags: intermediate c++17

Do you use it?

std::any: How, when, and why

by Casey Carter

From the article:

C++17 adds several new “vocabulary types” – types intended to be used in the interfaces between components from different sources – to the standard library. MSVC has been shipping implementations of std::optional, std::any, and std::variantsince the Visual Studio 2017 release, but we haven’t provided any guidelines on how and when these vocabulary types should be used. This article on std::any is the second of a series that examines each of the vocabulary types in turn...

“auto to stick” and Changing Your Style--Jonathan Boccara

By Adrien Hamelin | Oct 8, 2018 10:34 AM | Tags: intermediate c++11

What do you think?

“auto to stick” and Changing Your Style

by Jonathan Boccara

From the article:

While performing a code review on a refactoring project, I stumbled upon a change that took a line of code from this state:

Widget myWidget{42};

to that:

auto myWidget = Widget{42};

Well, in the actual case the type wasn’t called Widget and the initialization value wasn’t exactly 42. But that’s the gist of it...

A short interview with Dan Saks

By Meeting C++ | Oct 8, 2018 06:34 AM | Tags: meetingcpp embedded

Dan Saks talks about C++, C, embedded, and his upcoming Keynote at Meeting Embedded

A short interview with Dan Saks

by Jens Weller

 

C++ Links #5 -- Bartlomiej Filipek and Wojciech Razik

By bfilipek | Oct 5, 2018 02:34 PM | Tags: None

The 5th episode of the 'most useful C++ links' is now available:

C++ Links #5

by Bartlomiej Filipek and Wojciech Razik

From the article:

Welcome to new C++ Links - most important and useful articles, podcasts and videos that happen between 29th September and 5th of October.

In this week you will find two trip reports from CppCon, an article about std::any (aka modern void*), a video about std::fmt library and many more!

C++ Links - 22nd - 28th September

By bfilipek | Sep 28, 2018 08:16 AM | Tags: None

4th episode of the most useful C++ links

C++ Links #4

by Bartlomiej Filipek & Wojciech Razik

From the article:

Welcome to new C++ Links - most important and useful articles, podcasts and videos that happen between 22th and 28th of September.

This week CppCon took place - the biggest C++ conference. In today’s list, you will find the first video from there, about future of C++, you can also see a post about removing duplicate elements from associative containers and an example of really defensive programming.

Modularity in C++ 17 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

By Mantosh Kumar | Sep 25, 2018 08:01 PM | Tags: c++17

Discussion on "Modules".

Modularity in C++ 17

by Bjarne Stroustrup

From the article:

The creator of C++ provides an overview of modularity as it applies to C++ 17. This chapter is from the book "A Tour of C++, 2nd Edition".

The case for Auto Non-Static Data Member Initializers -- Corentin Jabot

By Corentin Jabot | Sep 20, 2018 11:34 AM | Tags: None

The case for Auto Non-Static Data Member Initializers

By Corentin Jabot

From the article:

In this article, we talk about Auto Non-Static Data Member Initializers in C++. All code snippet can be tested on Compiler Explorer thanks to Matt Godbolt.

In fact, the main motivation for this article is to put this feature in the hand of people to prove that it works and that it would be a great addition to the standard.