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By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 2, 2015 01:00 PM | Tags: c++11 basics
Bitesize Modern C++: nullptr
by Glennan Carnie
From the article:
What’s the value of a null pointer?
- 0
- NULL
- NUL
No doubt you’ve been involved in the (always heated) discussions about which is the correct one (By the way, if you said NUL you need to take yourself to one side and give yourself a stern talking to)...
By Meeting C++ | Jul 1, 2015 08:32 AM | Tags: community basics advanced
The monthly overview on upcoming C++ User Group Meetings, this time its 18 User Groups who are meeting during summer!
C++ User Group Meetings in July
by Jens Weller
The list of meetings:
7.7 C++ UG Chicago - Memory Management in C++14 and Beyond
8.7 C++ UG San Francisco/ Bay area - HPX, C++ parallel programming framework
8.7 C++ UG Bristol - The Anatomy of Exceptional Engineers
9.7 C++ UG New York - July C++ Meetup
9.7 C++ UG Amsterdam - Hot C++, Part 2
9.7 C++ UG Dresden - Lazy generating non-integral values in range-based for loops
15.7 C++ UG Utah - Embedded Scripting with ChaiScript
15.7 C++ UG Bristol - Save the date
15.7 C++ UG Washington, DC - Q & A / Info Sharing
15.7 C++ UG Düsseldorf - Traveling for C++, a trip report
21.7 C++ UG Berlin - Ingo Josopait - Introducing the Goopax compiler for GPUs and Barb
21.7 C++ UG Portland - PDXCPP July Meeting-- feat. Jon Kalb
22.7 C++ UG San Francisco/ Bay area - Workshop and Discussion Group
23.7 C++ UG Rhein-Neckar - Presenting for Geeks
28.7 C++ UG Cologne - Monthly meeting
29.7 C++ UG Washington, DC - Q & A / Info Sharing
29.7 C++ UG Hamburg - Protocol Buffers
30.7 C++ UG Bremen - C++ Testframeworks
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 29, 2015 12:19 AM | Tags: c++11 basics
enum:
Bitesize Modern C++: enum class
by Glennan Carnie
From the article:
Enumerated types in C++ give a trivial simulation of symbolic types – that is, objects whose instances have unique, human-readable values. In C++ enumerations are essentially named integers that are either assigned values implicitly by the compiler or explicitly by the programmer (or a combination of both)...
By Niks | Jun 24, 2015 04:39 AM | Tags: basics
C++ has more than one ways to express polymorphism. Discover the nomenclature and read examples on all of them in the following article :
The Four Polymorphisms in C++
by Peteris Krumins
From the article:
(...) These polymorphisms also go by different names in C++ :
- Subtype polymorphism is also known as runtime polymorphism.
- Parametric polymorphism is also known as compile-time polymorphism.
- Ad-hoc polymorphism is also known as overloading.
- Coercion is also known as (implicit or explicit) casting.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 8, 2015 09:26 AM | Tags: c++11 basics
static_assert
by Glennan Carnie
From the article:
C’s assert library is a useful tool for catching invalid invariants (conditions that must hold true in order for your system to operate as specified) in your program. The big problem with assert is that it’s a run-time check; in many cases the best you can do to recover from an assert failure is restart the system or put it into a quiescent state...
By Andrey Karpov | Jun 4, 2015 11:48 PM | Tags: errors compilers compiler bugs basics
Many programmers are very fond of blaming the compiler for different errors. Let's talk about it.
The compiler is to blame for everything
by Andrey Karpov
From the article:
When a programmer tells you that the compiler causes an error, it is a lie in 99% of cases. When you start investigating the problem, you usually find out the following reasons:
- an array overrun;
- an uninitialized variable;
- a misprint;
- a synchronization error in a parallel program;
- a non-volatile variable used;
- code leading to undefined behavior;
- etc.
By Adrien Hamelin | May 28, 2015 02:31 PM | Tags: c++11 basics
Quick A: To avoid breaking old code, thanks to context-sensitive keywords.
Recently on SO:
Why are override and final identifiers with special meaning instead of reserved keywords?
Both the override specifier and final specifier were added in C++11. They differ from other specifiers added to C++11 such as constexpr and decltype, in that they are not keywords and so are available for use as identifiers:
int main() { int override = 0 ; // Ok int final = 0 ; // Ok //int constexpr = 0 ; // Error }They are referred to as identifiers with special meaning, which is covered in the draft C++11 standard section 2.11 [lex.name] (emphasis mine):
The identifiers in Table 3 have a special meaning when appearing in a certain context. When referred to in the grammar, these identifiers are used explicitly rather than using the identifier grammar production. any ambiguity as to whether a given identifier has a special meaning is resolved to interpret the token as a regular identifier.
and Table 3 -- Identifiers with special meaning lists both override and final.Why did these two specifiers end up being identifiers with special meaning instead of keywords?
By Adrien Hamelin | May 26, 2015 08:00 AM | Tags: performance basics
The way the STL takes comparators is not the better thing in some cases, like with the following comparator:
[] (const T& a, const T& b) { return expensive_function(a) < expensive_function(b); }
By aleph7 | May 7, 2015 12:08 AM | Tags: community c++14 c++11 basics
This workshop is an introduction to new features and best practices of modern C++. We will delve into the core of C++ and all new features introduced in C++11 and C++14.
Introduction to Modern C++ Workshop happening at Polyglot Unconference 2015 in Vancouver, BC.
by Alejandro Isaza
From the workshop summary:
- Write C++ code using the latest language features while following the best practices
- Use third-party libraries and frameworks
By Adrien Hamelin | May 4, 2015 08:02 AM | Tags: c++14 basics
Binary literals and digit separators
by Marius Bancila
From the article:
The C++14 standard provides two new small features to the language: binary literals and digit separators. They are already available in Clang 3.4 and GCC 4.9 and now Visual Studio 2015 RC has implemented them. They may not be something you can’t leave without, but sometimes it’s convenient to have them. Let’s have a look...