Modern C++ Features – auto for Functions
A few posts ago I have written about `auto` for variables. This time will be about the same keyword for a different use: `auto` as return type for functions.
Arne Mertz
Encapsulating APIs
Have you ever seen a codebase crawling with `DWORD_PTR`, `HANDLE` and similar types? I bet it was a Windows application which never has been (and probably never will be) ported to another operating System, because it had fallen victim to a leaky or nonexistent encapsulation of WinAPI.
Modern C++ Features – Inherited and Delegating Constructors
In my last post I have written about braced-or-equal-initializers for class members, a feature that enables simpler constructors through default values for members. Today’s post is about two related features that can simplify the writing of constructors even further.
Modern C++ Features – Default Initializers for Member Variables
One of the less discussed but nevertheless useful features in C++11 is the possibility to provide initializers for class members right in the class definition.
Unit Tests are not Friends
Don’t get me wrong. Unit tests are your friends when developing a class. But they should not be that class’ `friend`. Here’s why.
C++ is not an object oriented language
Today I came across the video of a talk of Bjarne Stroustrup, where, among other things, he states that C++ is not an object oriented language. This contradicts what many […]
Modern C++ Features – std::begin/end and range based for loops
Here we go again with two features that have been added in C++11 that can greatly simplify the code we write.
Modern C++ Features – auto for variables
This is my second post of a series on new C++ features, where new means C++11 and up. Keyword `auto` for variable type deduction is one of the most known […]
Modern C++ Features – Uniform Initialization and initializer_list
With this post I’ll start a series on new C++ features, where new means C++11 and up. I usually won’t go into too much technical details of the features, because […]
Half a year of blogging
It’s been almost six months now that I started this blog, and the resonance is better than I would have dreamed back then.