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By Blog Staff | Aug 25, 2014 11:02 AM | Tags: None
In case you missed it:
Demystifying C++ lambdas
by Feabhas
From the article:
Lambdas are one of the new features added to C++ and seem to cause considerable consternation amongst many programmers. In this article we’ll have a look at the syntax and underlying implementation of lambdas to try and put them into some sort of context.
By Blog Staff | Aug 25, 2014 09:36 AM | Tags: None
A view from our primary ISO representative from Spain, commenting on C++14's approval one week ago and providing a nice set of highlights showing what's new.
C++14 Is Out!
Jose Daniel García
From the article:
After the long process that took a decade to produce C++11, the standards committee tried to define a more streamlined process to deliver updates and new versions of the C++ language and its standard library more frequently. The first target was to produce a new version for 2014. Now we can say that we have achieved the milestone.
... So, what’s new in C++14? In the language itself you will find a bunch of new/improved features. If you ask which is the most relevant new feature, the most common answer you may get is “generic lambdas”...
By Blog Staff | Aug 21, 2014 08:57 AM | Tags: intermediate c++14 c++11 advanced
Scott's long-awaited book on using C++11 and C++14 is nearing completion:
Near-Final Draft of Effective Modern C++ Now Available (plus TOC and sample Item)
by Scott Meyers
From the announcement:
Effective Modern C++ is moving closer and closer to reality. This post contains:
- Information about availability of an almost-final draft of the book.
- The current (and probably final) table of contents.
- A link to the I-hope-I-got-it-right-this-time version of my Item on
noexcept.
Note: Scott's session at CppCon ("Type Deduction and Why You Care") is based on the first chapter of Effective Modern C++.
By Blog Staff | Aug 20, 2014 09:06 AM | Tags: None
Hot off the presses, Stroustrup's answers to the most-upvoted questions (and a few more) from last week's AMA question thread.
Interviews: Bjarne Stroustrup Answers Your Questions
Last week you had a chance to ask Bjarne Stroustrup about programming and C++. Below you'll find his answers to those questions. If you didn't get a chance to ask him a question, or want to clarify something he said, don't forget he's doing a live Google + Q & A today at 12:30pm Eastern.
And don't forget that said live Q&A session starts in 20 minutes...
By Blog Staff | Aug 20, 2014 09:01 AM | Tags: basics
Today's op-ed from our Australian correspondent:
auto considered awesome
by Jarryd Beck
From the article:
My last post about why you might not want to use auto may have left some people thinking that I think you shouldn’t use it. In fact I think you should almost always use it...
By Blog Staff | Aug 19, 2014 05:11 PM | Tags: None
A timely interview, with yesterday's confirmation that we have C++14:
Bjarne Stroustrup Talks About C++14
by William Wong
From the interview:
Bjarne Stroustrup is the well-known creator of C++. He also joined the Electronic Design Engineering Hall of Fame in 2013... He will be holding a Q&A on August 20th at the Google+ C++ Community but I thought we could get in a couple questions early...
By Blog Staff | Aug 19, 2014 05:06 PM | Tags: advanced
New on Tales of C++, from our Argentinian correspondent:
Eggs.Variant -- Part I
by K-ballo
Ruminations on the development of Eggs.Variant [GitHub], a C++11/14 generic, type-safe, discriminated union...
By Blog Staff | Aug 19, 2014 04:57 PM | Tags: intermediate advanced
The standard library allocators are one of the more mysterious parts of namespace std, as well as one of the more flexible parts. In this "under construction" article and GitHub repo, Thomas Köppe undertakes to demystify the feature.
A visitor’s guide to C++ allocators (repo)
by Thomas Köppe
From the README:
This repository contains a collection of documents that describe the allocator concept in the standard library of C++11 and beyond. The main guide covers the following topics.
- Allocator traits
- Statefulness
- Fancy pointers
- Allocator propagation in breadth (container copy, POC{CA,MA,S}) and depth (
scoped_allocator_adaptor)Start reading with the main guide.
Furthermore, there are several worked-out end-to-end examples:
The code for the end-to-end examples is available separately in the
example_codedirectory.
By Blog Staff | Aug 19, 2014 08:32 AM | Tags: None
Jens Weller gives a nice perspective on the C++ landscape in 2014.
Thoughts on C++14
by Jens Weller
From the article:
Yesterday we could read on isocpp.org that C++14 has been approved and will now become a valid ISO Standard. Great news for everyone in the C++ land! ...
But there is something else that makes C++14 for me special...
By Blog Staff | Aug 18, 2014 11:40 AM | Tags: advanced
Fresh on GameDev.net:
Using Varadic Templates for a Signals and Slots Implementation in C++
By Paul Cook
From the article:
Abstract
Connecting object instances to each other in a type-safe manner is a well-solved problem in C++ and many good implementations of signals and slots systems exist. However, prior to the new varadic templates introduced in C++0x, accomplishing this has traditionally been complex and required some awkward repetition of code and limitations.
Varadic templates allow for this system to be implemented in a far more elegant and concise manner and a signals/slots system is a good example of how the power of varadic templates can be used to simplify generic systems that were previously difficult to express. ...