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By Blog Staff | Feb 27, 2023 03:36 AM | Tags: None
A C++ story, as-if ghostwritten by Frederick Forsyth...
The Iterator Protocol
by Rainer Grimm
From the article:
Here is the question I want to answer: What interface must a user-defined type support to be usable in a range-based for-loop. ...
By Meeting C++ | Feb 24, 2023 09:17 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community
Looking at the second year of Meeting C++ online job fairs
Insights from the second year of running online C++ job fairs
by Jens Weller
From the article:
An overview on the second year of organizing online job fairs for the C++ community.
In 2022 Meeting C++ organized 5 online job fairs for C++. Originally 4 were planned, but in May only one company could attend and two other companies approached Meeting C++ after the event wondering if another fair in June was possible. With better planning this could have been one fair. The next job fair is on March 14th & 15th.
By Blog Staff | Feb 20, 2023 11:32 PM | Tags: None
From "Modernes C++":
Value Objects
by Rainer Grimm
From the article:
A value object is a small object whose equality is based on state, but not identity. Typical value objects are money, numbers, or strings. ...
... For a user-defined type, you have to choose the appropriate equality semantics. ... In C++20, the compiler can auto-generate the equality operator and use it as a fallback for the inequality operator. The auto-generated equality operator applies value equality. To be more precise, the compiler-generated equality operator performs a lexicographical comparison. Lexicographical comparison means that all base classes are compared left to right and all nonstatic members of the class in their declaration order.
I have to add two important points:
- For strings or vectors, there is a shortcut: the compiler-generated == and != operators compare first their lengths and then their content if necessary.
- The compiler-generated three-way comparison operator (
<=>) also applies value equality. You can read more about the three-way comparison operator in my previous posts:Honestly, the example works as expected but does not seem right. ...
By Blog Staff | Feb 20, 2023 12:29 PM | Tags: None
Delving into the "how it works" and "why use it" of std::initializer_list...
std::initializer_list in C++, Caveats and Improvements
by Bartłomiej Filipek
From the article:
In this article, you’ll learn why
std::initializer_listhas a bad reputation in C++...... We can make the following conclusion:
std::initializer_listis a “view” type; it references some implementation-dependent and a local array ofconstvalues. Use it mainly for passing into functions when you need a variable number of arguments of the same type. If you try to return such lists and pass them around, then you risk lifetime issues. Use with care.Let’s take on another limitation: ...
By Yury Fedorov | Feb 15, 2023 12:06 PM | Tags: None
Let's talk a bit about one of the most used Abseil parts:
Abseil Strings Library
by Yury Fedorov
From the article:
Abseil is an open source solution from Google that implements many basic and very helpful construction blocks for C++. Thanks to Abseil you may create a great isolation layer from your version of C++ compiler. In this article I will focus on few common functions from one of the most used Abseil libraries:
absl::strings.
By Blog Staff | Feb 15, 2023 02:53 AM | Tags: None
The "Safely Tome" has landed, and we have a review from the author of C++ Stories:
Review of Embracing Modern C++ Safely (Lakos, Romeo, Khlebnikov, Meredith)
by Bartlomiej Filipek
From the review:
C++11 has been around for around 11 years and C++14 for 8. From my experience, I see that even today, many companies struggle to use those standards in production in the most efficient way. As always, with new stuff came benefits, risks, and increased learning effort. Fortunately, with a new book written by top C++ Experts, we have a solid guide on what is safe and what might be problematic in Modern C++.
The book is called “Embracing Modern C++ Safely”.
Let’s see what’s inside...
By Blog Staff | Feb 14, 2023 03:48 PM | Tags: None
Overload #173 is now available!
Highlights include:
By Blog Staff | Feb 13, 2023 03:30 PM | Tags: None
C++23 is done!
C++23 "Pandemic Edition" is complete (Trip report: Winter ISO C++ standards meeting, Issaquah, WA, USA)
by Herb Sutter
From the article:
On Saturday, the ISO C++ committee completed technical work on C++23 in Issaquah, WA, USA! We resolved the remaining international comments on the C++23 draft, and are now producing the final document to be sent out for its international approval ballot (Draft International Standard, or DIS) and final editorial work, to be published later in 2023...
... Per our published C++23 schedule, this was our final meeting to finish technical work on C++23. No features were added or removed, we just handled fit-and-finish issues and primarily focused on finishing addressing the 137 national body comments we received in the summer’s international comment ballot (Committee Draft, or CD). You can find a list of C++23 features here, many of them already implemented in major compilers and libraries. C++23’s main theme was “completing C++20,” and some of the highlights include module “std”, “if consteval,” explicit “this” parameters, still more constexpr, still more CTAD, “[[assume]]”, simplifying implicit move, multidimensional and static “operator[]”, a bunch of Unicode improvements, and Nicolai Josuttis’ personal favorite: fixing the lifetime of temporaries in range-for loops...
By Jens Maurer | Feb 2, 2023 11:09 AM | Tags: c++11 basics
Lambdas
Modern C++ In-Depth — Lambdas, Part 3
by Michael Kristofik
From the article
In our last installment, we examined how lambdas work and how they help simplify code. Now let’s build on that knowledge to see how we might store a collection of lambda expressions.
By Marco Arena | Feb 1, 2023 11:44 PM | Tags: intermediate design c++20
That little extra we might equip builder classes with:
The Toggle Builder
by Marco Arena
From the article:
If intended for general usage, the builder can result a bit uncomfortable when we go through some configuration object to toggle features. This often leads to a bunch of ifs..