DeepEnds 3.5: Make public members private

By zebedee | Jul 27, 2020 09:28 AM | Tags: None

CycleRouter Ltd has released version 3.5 of their DeepEnds dependency analysis tool. A highlight:

Report and/or automatically rewrite public members that should be private

From the release announcement:

DeepEnds includes other dependency analysis tools to analyse coupling and cohesion, delete redundant code and

identify classes to extracted from C code. It parses C++, C# and Visual Basic source code.

The software is free to use until the end of August and will now install successfully via NuGet.

CppCon 2019: Maintainability and Refactoring Impact of Higher-Level Design Features--Titus Winters

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 24, 2020 01:59 PM | Tags: community

This year, CppCon 2020 is going virtual. The dates are still the same – September 14-18 – and we are aiming for the CppCon live event to have pretty much everything you’re familiar with at CppCon except moved online: multiple tracks including “back to basics” and a new “embedded” track; live speaker Q&A; live talk time zones friendly to Americas and EMEA (and we’re going to try to arrange around-the-clock recorded repeats in all time zones, where speakers who are available can be available for live Q&A in their repeated talks too, and we’ll do that if it’s possible – but we’re still working on it!); virtual tables where you can interact face-to-face online with other attendees just like at the physical event; virtual exhibitor spaces where you can meet the folks on your favorite product’s teams to ask them question face-to-face; pre- and post-conference classes; and even the CppCon house band playing live before every plenary session. All talk recordings will be freely available as usual on YouTube a month or two after the event, but everything else above will be available only live during CppCon week.

To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, here’s another of the top-rated talks from last year. Enjoy – and register today for CppCon 2020 – all the spirit and flavor of CppCon, this year all virtual and online!

Maintainability and Refactoring Impact of Higher-Level Design Features

by Titus Winters

Summary of the talk:

Higher levels of abstraction are useful for building things out of, but also have a higher cognitive and maintenance cost. That is, it's a lot easier to refactor a function than it is to change a type, and similarly easier to deal with a single concrete type than a class template, or a Concept, or a meta-Concept ... In this talk I'll present example strategies for refactoring the interface of functions, classes, and class templates. I'll also discuss how the recent addition of Concepts and the proposals for even-more-abstract features affect long-term refactoring in C++. If you're interested in refactoring and it isn't immediately clear that a Concept published in a library can never change, this talk is for you.

July update on COVID-19 and Meeting C++ 2020

By Meeting C++ | Jul 23, 2020 08:28 AM | Tags: None

An update on how the plans for Meeting C++ 2020 evolved.

July update on COVID-19 and Meeting C++ 2020

by Jens Weller

From the article:

This is the July update for how the plans for Meeting C++ 2020 are evolving in this ongoing pandemic. One thing you can do until the weekend, is to start voting on the talks for Meeting C++2020!

CppCon 2019: Back to Basics: Const as a Promise--Dan Saks

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 22, 2020 11:13 AM | Tags: community

This year, CppCon 2020 is going virtual. The dates are still the same – September 14-18 – and we are aiming for the CppCon live event to have pretty much everything you’re familiar with at CppCon except moved online: multiple tracks including “back to basics” and a new “embedded” track; live speaker Q&A; live talk time zones friendly to Americas and EMEA (and we’re going to try to arrange around-the-clock recorded repeats in all time zones, where speakers who are available can be available for live Q&A in their repeated talks too, and we’ll do that if it’s possible – but we’re still working on it!); virtual tables where you can interact face-to-face online with other attendees just like at the physical event; virtual exhibitor spaces where you can meet the folks on your favorite product’s teams to ask them question face-to-face; pre- and post-conference classes; and even the CppCon house band playing live before every plenary session. All talk recordings will be freely available as usual on YouTube a month or two after the event, but everything else above will be available only live during CppCon week.

To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, here’s another of the top-rated talks from last year. Enjoy – and register today for CppCon 2020 – all the spirit and flavor of CppCon, this year all virtual and online!

Back to Basics: Const as a Promise

by Dan Saks

Summary of the talk:

The const qualifier has various uses in C++. One of the most valuable uses is in declaring function headings that constrain the effects of function calls. Using const appropriately can reduce bugs and development time by turning potential run-time errors into compile-time errors that are much easier to find and correct. Using const can even reduce your program’s code size and execution time.

Despite these benefits, too many C++ programmers still use const reactively rather than proactively. That is, they tend to add const as needed to quell compiler error messages, rather than design const in as they code. To get the most out of const, programmers really need to understand (1) when and where to place const in declarations, (2) when to leave it out entirely, and (3) how type conversions involving const behave.

The key insight about const is to understand const as a promise—a promise not to modify something. This session explains the real meaning of that promise and how that insight can guide you in declaring function parameters and return types. It also explains why you shouldn’t declare by-value parameters and return types as const, why overloading on const is such a useful and ubiquitous idiom, and why it is meaningful to declare constexpr member functions as const.

Solving the Static Initialization Order Fiasco with C++20--Rainer Grimm

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 22, 2020 10:55 AM | Tags: c++20

Are you aware of the problem?

Solving the Static Initialization Order Fiasco with C++20

by Rainer Grimm

From the article:

According to the FAQ of isocpp.org is the static initialization order fiasco "a subtle way to crash your program". The FAQ continues: The static initialization order problem is a very subtle and commonly misunderstood aspect of C++. ". Today, I write about this very subtle and misunderstood aspect of C++.

A plea for order -- Philipp Lenk

By Rahel Natalie | Jul 22, 2020 09:45 AM | Tags: None

A few days ago, one particularly ambitious victim student of mine asked for assistance in tracking down a bug.

A plea for order

by Philipp Lenk

From the article:

I know I promised to talk more about emulation, about chess and operating systems, but I have to get something off of my chest first. This is not going to be one of my would-be grand and elongated epics trying to cover far too much in far too many words. Instead, I shall focus on one very small, very self contained thing: the order of #include directives in C++ source code

CopperSpice: A Guide to Maps

By Ansel Sermersheim | Jul 22, 2020 09:44 AM | Tags: None

New video on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:

A Guide to Maps

by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim

About the video:

This video discusses the various types of C++ maps including the standard library containers and the new flatmap class available in third party libraries. We look at the underlying data structures so you can reason about picking the right one for your application, and talk about the various considerations that are involved in this choice.

Please take a look and remember to subscribe!

CppCon 2019: Range Algorithms, Views and Actions: A Comprehensive Guide--Dvir Yitzchaki

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 20, 2020 09:33 AM | Tags: None

This year, CppCon 2020 is going virtual. The dates are still the same – September 14-18 – and we are aiming for the CppCon live event to have pretty much everything you’re familiar with at CppCon except moved online: multiple tracks including “back to basics” and a new “embedded” track; live speaker Q&A; live talk time zones friendly to Americas and EMEA (and we’re going to try to arrange around-the-clock recorded repeats in all time zones, where speakers who are available can be available for live Q&A in their repeated talks too, and we’ll do that if it’s possible – but we’re still working on it!); virtual tables where you can interact face-to-face online with other attendees just like at the physical event; virtual exhibitor spaces where you can meet the folks on your favorite product’s teams to ask them question face-to-face; pre- and post-conference classes; and even the CppCon house band playing live before every plenary session. All talk recordings will be freely available as usual on YouTube a month or two after the event, but everything else above will be available only live during CppCon week.

To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, here’s another of the top-rated talks from last year. Enjoy – and register today for CppCon 2020 – all the spirit and flavor of CppCon, this year all virtual and online!

Range Algorithms, Views and Actions: A Comprehensive Guide

by Dvir Yitzchaki

Summary of the talk:

STL algorithms are something every C++ programmer should know. With ranges being voted in C++ 20, there are even more useful tools that we should at least be aware of, if not use daily.

Using ranges helps writing a code which is great in expressiveness and safety and does not fall behind in performance. In this talk we will cover what ranges add to the C++20 standard library, as well as go over all the different views and actions available in range-v3 library which can be used today.

This talk is inspired by Jonathan Boccara’s talk "105 algorithms in less than an hour".

Quick Q; Recursive unordered_map

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 20, 2020 09:30 AM | Tags: basics

Quick A: there is no guarantee for a container to work with incomplete types.

Recently on SO:

Recursive unordered_map

STL containers are not required to work with incomplete types. If you don't mind extra indirection, then the workaround is std::map<int, std::unique_ptr<Node>>.

CppCon 2019: C++20: C++ at 40--Bjarne Stroustrup

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 17, 2020 11:43 AM | Tags: community

This year, CppCon 2020 is going virtual. The dates are still the same – September 14-18 – and we are aiming for the CppCon live event to have pretty much everything you’re familiar with at CppCon except moved online: multiple tracks including “back to basics” and a new “embedded” track; live speaker Q&A; live talk time zones friendly to Americas and EMEA (and we’re going to try to arrange around-the-clock recorded repeats in all time zones, where speakers who are available can be available for live Q&A in their repeated talks too, and we’ll do that if it’s possible – but we’re still working on it!); virtual tables where you can interact face-to-face online with other attendees just like at the physical event; virtual exhibitor spaces where you can meet the folks on your favorite product’s teams to ask them question face-to-face; pre- and post-conference classes; and even the CppCon house band playing live before every plenary session. All talk recordings will be freely available as usual on YouTube a month or two after the event, but everything else above will be available only live during CppCon week.

To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, here’s another of the top-rated talks from last year. Enjoy – and register today for CppCon 2020 – all the spirit and flavor of CppCon, this year all virtual and online!

C++20: C++ at 40

by Bjarne Stroustrup

Summary of the talk:

It is now 40 years since C++ (then called C with Classes) had its first non-research user. It is now 35 years since the first commercial release of C++. It is now 30 years since the start of the standards process.

So what is C++? I will try to explain what's great about C++, C++20, as a modern language, not treating it as a layer cake of features. Imagine you have never heard of C, C with Classes, or C++11. How do classes, templates, and lambdas fit together? What have constructors and destructors to do with exceptions? What's in the standard library? How can we start using C++?

Finally, I will make a few comments about how to get from older styles of C++ use to modern C++ and point to areas where we need to improve C++ further.