The basics of type-dependent code reuse -- Mark Isaacson
From the Modern Maintainable Code blog:
The basics of type-dependent code reuse
by Mark Isaacson
Summary:
The first article of a series on code reuse. This article provides a discussion on the role of both [basic] templates and overloading as they apply to code reuse. The article discusses answers to fundamental questions like:
- Why is it beneficial to sometimes have the same function/struct name do different things depending on their parameters?
- How can I reuse the same implementation code with different types?
- How can I use the same code to invoke different fundamental implementations selected by type?
An interlude with the questions of the next Q/A style article of the code reuse series was also posted: Two fundamental implementations for one conceptual task
[We don't often link to quiz-like sites, particularly product-specific ones, but in this case we felt that this could be of broad interest to some of our readers. -- Ed.]
Scott Meyers' keynote at the Meeting C++ 2014 conference. A short description can be found on