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By Tony | Mar 12, 2018 08:49 AM | Tags: c++17
Results of a recent survey suggest that many devs have a hard time keeping up with changes between each rev of C++.
C++17 before and after table
by Tony Van Eerd
About the article:
Here's a collection of the major changes between C++14 and C++17, with example code for each - typically showing how it may have been written before C++17, and how it can now be written with the new C++17 feature(s).
By Legalize Adulthood | Mar 12, 2018 08:47 AM | Tags: tools
A comparison of two automatic rename tools for C++ in Visual Studio.
C++ Rename Shootout: Visual Studio 2017 vs. ReSharper for C++
by Richard Thomson
About the post:
Getting help from your development environment for renaming identifiers can be a huge productivity boost. It lets you quickly and easily improve the names of things in your code. In this post, I’ll review two automatic renaming tools for C++ in Visual Studio: Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition 15.5.7 and ReSharper for C++ 2017.3.2.
By Ansel Sermersheim | Mar 12, 2018 08:47 AM | Tags: None
New video on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:
Regular Expressions
by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim
About the video:
This video covers Regular Expressions, what they are and when you might want to use them. We also discuss when to avoid using a regex. We cover existing regex libraries that can be used in C++, briefly examine their pros and cons, and present the CopperSpice regular expression implementation.
Please take a look and remember to subscribe!
By Blog Staff | Mar 8, 2018 11:54 AM | Tags: None
LLVM 6.0.0 and Clang 6.0.0 are now available.
Clang 6.0.0 Release Notes
From the announcement:
Clang’s default C++ dialect is now gnu++14 instead of gnu++98. This means Clang will by default accept code using features from C++14 and conforming GNU extensions. Projects incompatible with C++14 can add -std=gnu++98 to their build settings to restore the previous behaviour.
Added support for some features from the C++ standard after C++17 (provisionally known as C++2a but expected to be C++20). This support can be enabled with the -std=c++2a flag. This enables:
A warning has been added for a <= token followed immediately by a > character. Code containing such constructs will change meaning in C++2a due to the addition of the <=> operator.
Clang implements the “destroying operator delete” feature described in C++ committee paper P0722R1 <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/p0722r1.html>, which is targeting inclusion in C++2a but has not yet been voted into the C++ working draft. Support for this feature is enabled by the presence of the standard library type std::destroying_delete_t.
By Blog Staff | Mar 7, 2018 04:57 PM | Tags: None
A new WG21 paper is available. If you are not a committee member, please use the comments section below or the std-proposals forum for public discussion.
Document number: N4730
Date: 2018-03-07
WG21 pre-Jacksonville telecon minutes
by Jonathan Wakely
By Blog Staff | Mar 7, 2018 04:39 PM | Tags: None
From last Monday through this Monday, we ran our first global C++ developer survey.
Thank you to the over 3,200 of you who responded. As promised, here is a public summary of the results:
Results summary: C++ Developer Survey "Lite": 2018-02
This summary has now been forwarded to the C++ standards committee, along with the full text of your write-in answers (over 300 pages!). Your feedback will be very helpful, and has already started to be referred to by standards participants as we prepare for next week's ISO meeting in Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Thank you again for your participation. It is very helpful, and based on the success of this survey we plan to run it again in the future from time to time. When we do, it will be announced here on isocpp.org.
Note: Due to a SurveyMonkey bug, the word clouds showing popular keywords for the five open-ended questions cover about half the responses, which fortunately is still a large sample. They're working on a fix to include all the responses in the word clouds.
By fj | Mar 6, 2018 09:04 AM | Tags: c++17 advanced
Presentation of a technique that enables transparent interception of the selected arguments passed to any function by means of a user-provided predicate metafunction.
Selective argument application
by Krzysztof Ostrowski
From the article:
Presentation of a design of an interceptor abstraction built over C++17 utilities that records values of the selected arguments passed to any action transparently, then applies that action to the captured arguments, and eventually passes the result value to the next action.
By Matt Aubury | Mar 6, 2018 09:00 AM | Tags: c++17
Matt Aubury philosophizes about digging a grave for certain std::index_sequence idioms.
RIP index_sequence, 2014–2017
by Matt Aubury
From the article:
std::tuple was one of the great additions to C++11. Whilst sometimes abused by lazy programmers (who should really be using a struct or class), it’s true value is as a container of arbitrary values in variadic templates.
Sadly, static typing makes working with tuples much harder in C++ than in most languages [...]
By triangles | Mar 6, 2018 08:55 AM | Tags: None
A brief tour into the realm of writing C and C++ applications, the role of the Standard Library and how it is implemented in various operating systems.
What are the C and C++ Standard Libraries?
By Triangles @ Internal Pointers
From the article:
I have been playing around with C++ for a while and one thing that always got me confused in the beginning was its anatomy: where do the core functions and classes I'm using come from? Who invented them? Are they packaged somewhere in my system? Is there a kind of official C++ manual around?
By robwirving | Mar 2, 2018 10:21 AM | Tags: None
Episode 140 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Jon Kalb to discuss upcoming C++ conferences, CppChat and east const.
CppCast Episode 140: Conference News and CppChat
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
Jon Kalb does onsite training in C++ and chairs C++Now, CppCon, and the Boost Steering Committee.
Next month he will be speaking at the ACCU conference in Bristol, and keynoting the C++ Russia conference in Saint Petersburg.