Five bloggers have teamed up worldwide to deliver an April Fool’s joke to readers about eliminating pointers. The response to the five articles was huge and ranged from “it took so long” to “that can not be true”. Here again, the truths, half-truths, and untruths: No New New: Raw Pointers Removed from C++. You can […]
Two weeks ago, the ISO C++ standard meeting took place in Jacksonville. Today I want to make a short detour and write about the revolutionary decision that was made in the Jacksonville meeting. Additionally, I refer to the post C++ Will no Longer Have Pointers by Fluent C++. The standard committee decided that pointers will be […]
Before I write about the rules of performance, I will do a straightforward job. Accessing the elements of a container one by one.
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Today, I will write about the remaining rules to statements and the arithmetic rules. If you don’t follow the arithmetic rules, undefined behaviour may kick in.
My last German post C++ Core Guidelines: To Switch or not to Switch, that is the Question got a lot of attention. To use a hash table instead of a switch statement seems to be a highly emotional topic. So I change my original plan. Today, I will present different kinds of control structures. I will start […]
First, I have to apologize. Today, I wanted to continue my journey through the C++ Core Guidelines with arithmetic expressions. In my seminar this week, we had a long discussion about switch statements in C/C++ and how they become unmaintainable. Honestly, I’m not a fan of the switch statements, and I have to say: there is life […]
Before I continue with the roughly 15 rules for statements, let me finish the two rules for expressions. Both rules help you to protect your program from undefined behavior.
This post is about don’ts. Here are this post’s two most important rules: Don’t use std::move thoughtless and don’t slice. Let’s start.
What has narrowing conversion and casts in common? They are often the source of errors; therefore, I will write about them today.