Writing min function, part 3 -- Fernando Pelliccioni
Writing min function, part 3: Weakening the ordering
Now we understand what Concepts are (do we?), I will try to complete the min function...
Articles & Books
Spotlight on Libraries Relying on C++14 -- C++ Rocks
Spotlight on Libraries Relying on C++14
This article provides an overview of libraries in the wild using C++14 features in their implementations. While there aren't a lot of C++14-specific libraries available at this point, the article provides examples from functional style stream manipulation to typesafe string formatting.
A video interview with Michael Wong
At C++Now this and last year I recorded a short interview with Michael Wong:
A video interview with Michael Wong
The interview as a youtube playlist
by Jens Weller
From the Article:
I've started last year a video interview in Aspen - while at C++Now - with Michael Wong. This year I had the chance to finish the interview and I am now finally able to release it. Michael is a member of the C++ Committee for many years, he leads the Canadian delegation and also speaks for IBM at the C++ committee.
Non-Static Data Member Initializers -- 741MHz
In case you missed it:
Non-Static Data Member Initializers
by 741MHz
From the article:
... This problem is addressed in C++11 by allowing non-static data members to be initialized along with a declaration. For example, the following syntax is allowed:
struct foo { double x = 1.23; int y = 1; int z = 2; };This also works well with multiple constructors. The class described above could now be simplified and made easier to maintain further down the road: ...
Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup: An Interview -- Emyr Williams
This month's CVu carries this new interview with Bjarne Stroustrup. (Note: As CVu is subscription-only, the link is to a copy of article hosted at Stroustrup's site.)
Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup: An Interview
by Emyr Williams
From the article:
In 2013, I heard Pete Goodliffe talk about becoming a better programmer, and he lined up panel of experts about how to become a better programmer. Having heard the talk, I endeavoured to put as much of it as I could in to practice. During one of the intervals, I had a chance meeting with Bjarne Stroustrup, who was gracious enough to agree to be interviewed for my blog. I was also encouraged to publish it in the ACCU magazine, so here we are...
Inheriting Constructors in C++11 -- 741MHz
Following up on Monday's linked article:
Inheriting Constructors in C++11
by 741MHz
From the article:
Delegating Constructors [... are] extremely useful in boosting efficiency, [but] it does not solve the problem when programmer wants to create a derived class that has exactly the same set of constructor as its base class or classes. In which case programmers are forced to tediously duplicate constructors of the base class...
C++11 solves this problem by introducing constructor inheritance. In a derived class, programmers can write a single
using T::T;statement that makes a derived class automatically inherit constructors of a base class. For example: ...
Trip Report: C++ Standards Committee Meeting in Rapperswil, June 2014 -- Botond Ballo
Here's one participant's view of the recent standards meeting with some interesting personal perspective.
Trip Report: C++ Standards Committee Meeting in Rapperswil, June 2014
by Botond Ballo
From the article:
Last [month] I attended another meeting of the ISO C++ Standards Committee in Rapperswil, Switzerland (near Zurich). This is the third Committee meeting I have attended; you can find my reports about the previous two here (September 2013, Chicago) and here (February 2014, Issaquah). These reports, particularly the Issaquah one, provide useful context for this post.
With C++14′s final ballot being still in progress, the focus of this meeting was the various language and library Technical Specifications (TS) that are planned as follow-ups to C++14, and on C++17. ...
Delegating Constructors in C++11 -- 741MHz
In case you missed it on 741MHz:
Delegating Constructors in C++11
by 741MHz
From the article:
C++ has caught up with other popular object-oriented languages such as Scala, Java, C# and others when it comes to constructor delegation, a feature that is now supported as per 2011 core language specification of ISO C++. This solves a common problem with repetitive coding, which is tedious and fragile, that C++ programmers had to do in order to provide multiple class constructors.
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C++11 allows that a constructor of a class type “A” may have an initializer list that invokes another constructor of the same type. Therefore, programmers can get rid of undesirable common initialization function and duplicate all at once by writing the code like this: ...
Inline Functions -- Andrzej KrzemieĊski
Today from Andrzej:
Inline Functions
by Andrzej Krzemieński
From the article:
Inlining functions can improve or worsen your program’s performance (however you define ‘performance’). It has been described in detail in Herb Sutter’s GotW #33. Compiler can decide to inline your function, even if it was not declared
inlineand conversely: it can decide not to inline it even if it is declaredinline. So, you might be tempted to think that declaring functions as inline has no useful portable meaning in C++. This is not so. I have found inline functions useful, and its usefulness has nothing to do with inlining...
Writing min function, part 2: Understanding Concepts
This is the second article of the series called “Writing min function.” I want complete the min function and fix the mistakes mentioned in the previous post. But first, we have to understand Concepts, so...
Writing min function, part 2: Understanding Concepts
by Fernando Pelliccioni