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 […]
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The State of C++ – Is it Back or Not?
A few years ago when C++11 was published, people saw that C++ might be becoming a different language and a wave of enthusiasm got hold of the C++ community. “C++ is back!” […]
Passing containers as out-parameters
Sometimes I see functions that are meant to return a range of values, but instead of returning a container, they take one as out-parameter. There are several reasons why that […]
Domain Specific Languages in C++ – Part 2: External DSLs
Last week I wrote about what makes C++ a good choice as a host language for embedded DSLs. This week’s post will be about external DSLs with C++ as host […]
Domain Specific Languages in C++ – Part 1: Embedded DSLs
Domain-specific languages (DSLs) can be powerful tools to simplify certain aspects of programming. While DSLs can be used in most or all programming languages, I think there are a few […]
Everything In A Class? – C++ Is Not Java!
In Java there are no free functions, which simplifies lookup rules and code organization. Many C++ style guides have adopted the “only classes” style, prohibiting free functions. But C++ is […]
Simple and Clean Code vs. Performance
One of C++s strengths is that it is possible to write very performant code. But does that mean we always have to worry about performance and write our everyday code as […]
Fun with(out) keyword explicit
Today’s post is about an incident with our compiler and a small little feature that sometimes seems to be underused or simply forgotten: Keyword explicit. How a Bug in Our […]
Operator Overloading – Introduction to Boost.Operators, Part 3
This is the third part of my introductory series on Boost.Operators. In the first part and second part I have written about the underlying ideas of the library and provided […]
Operator Overloading – Introduction to Boost.Operators, Part 2
This is the second part of my introduction to Boost.Operators. Click here for the first part. I will start right where I stopped in the last part.