Archive for month: October, 2016

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Raw and Cooked

October 30, 2016

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C++11 has user-defined literals for characters, C strings, integers, and floating-point numbers. Integers…

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User-Defined Literals

October 28, 2016

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User-defined literals are a unique feature in all mainstream programming languages. They empower you…

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Published at Leanpub: The C++ Standard Library

October 25, 2016

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Just published: The C++ Standard Library: What every professional C++ programmer should know about the…

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I’m proud to present: The C++ Standard Library

October 23, 2016

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The C++ Standard Library: All you have to know as a professional programmer about the C++ library. I'm…

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Compare and Modify Types

October 20, 2016

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The type-traits library empowers you to compare and modify types. All is done at compile time therefore,…

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Check Types

October 18, 2016

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Template Metaprogramming is programming at compile time. But what has template metaprogramming in common…

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More and More Save

October 15, 2016

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In the post Statically checked I wrote that the functions of the type-traits library are an ideal fit…

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Statically Checked

October 14, 2016

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static_assert is the tool in modern C++ to make your code safe. static_assert The usage of static_assert…

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{}-Initialization

October 11, 2016

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The initialization of variables was unified in C++11. The rule is quite simple. {}-Initialization is…

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auto-matically inititialized

October 6, 2016

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Probably the most frequently used feature of C++11 is auto. Thanks to auto, the compiler determines the…

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