he C++ literature uses the phrase “most vexing parse” to denote one of the dark syntactic alleys of C++. It’s vexing because programmers usually don’t even know it exists; they
At the opening keynote of this week’s Oracle OpenWorld Conference, Sun Chairman and Co-founder Scott McNealy called the father of Java, James Gosling, on stage to again reiterate Oracle’s dedication
ere’s a common scenario: a base class has multiple constructors, each of which takes a different number of parameters of various types. A derived class has to declare “mirror constructors”
ace conditions are an inherent part of parallel programming. A race condition exists any time a program’s behavior may depend on the relative ordering of events on separate threads. In
very declaration of an enum type must be a complete definition containing a full list of its enumerators. However, in some use cases declaring an enumeration without providing the enumerators
?year ago, everyone was all but certain that the C++0x standard was just around the corner, and that it would include concepts (see Danny Kalev’s earlier interview with Bjarne Stroustrup,
If you’re going to host a tech conference in the middle of a global recession, O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention (OSCON) wouldn’t be a bad choice. What does a bear market
hat were you doing during the morning hours (EST) of July 13th 2009? On that auspicious day, in a dramatic vote, the C++ standards committee decided to remove concepts from
ormally, you initialize data members in a constructor’s member initialization list. When a class has multiple constructors, each constructor initializes the object’s members individually, which often leads to repeating the