Today, I write about the few remaining rules to templates. Because a collective name is missing, they put the heterogeneous rules to templates in the section other. The rules are about best practices but also about surprises.
My mini-series about programming at compile time started with template metaprogramming, continued with the type-traits library, and ended today with constant expressions (constexpr).
The type-traits library supports type checks, type comparisons, and type modifications at compile time. Right! Today, I write about type modifications at compile time.
My journey through programming at compile time began in the last posts with template metaprogramming. Today, I jumped from C++98 to C++11. This is a jump to the type-traits library which is template metaprogramming in a standardized way.
Today, I will continue my introduction to programming at compile time. The last post started with template metaprogramming. Here is where I pick up today and finish.
Yes, you read it correctly. Today, I write about template metaprogramming, programming with types and not values.
In my concurrency class, I use more than 60 programs. Most of the programs consist of a single source file. I’m quite curious if the static code analysis tool CppDepend can find any issues in my sources. Let me try it out.
Variadic templates are a typical feature of C++: from the user’s perspective, they are easy to use, but from the implementor’s perspective, they look pretty scary. Today’s post is mainly about the implementor’s perspective.
Due to the C++ core guidelines, “Templates are the backbone of C++’s support for generic programming and class hierarchies the backbone of its support for object-oriented programming. The two language mechanisms can be combined effectively, but a few design pitfalls must be avoided.” Let me see what this means.
My post for today is just loosely coupled to the rules of the C++ core guidelines because they do provide not much content. Inspired by the guidelines, today’s post concerns a generic isSmaller function.