he C++ standards committee is now working on updates and enhancements to the Standard Library. Tuple types are one of the recent additions to the standard. A tupleis a fixed
he C++ preprocessor may seem like a prehistoric relic that has no place in state-of-the-art C++ projects, but this isn’t really so. Although every beginner nowadays knows how to use
base class provides an interface that is inherited by derived classes. However, in some cases you need to extend, or even alter, the base class’s interface in a derived class.
ertain objects must be converted to a low-level representation and vice versa. Programmers using std::string objects, for instance, have to convert them to bare char pointers, as in the following
C++ expert Herb Schildt uses practical, high-powered applications to illustrate some of the most interesting features of this language. The book includes “Pure code” subsystems you can adapt to your
s we all know, premature optimization is considered evil as it often entails eventually useless design complications and portability compromises. However, this doesn’t mean that healthy programming habits should be
arket trends are a dominant factor in the evolution of IDEs. 15 years ago, syntax highlighting and extensive online help were all the rage; in the late 1990s, it was
lot of ugly things can happen in the early morning hours when you are frantically trying to meet a deadline. For example, your mind can falter for a split second
ometimes, deciding on a color scheme for a site is more of a problem than is implementing it. I’ve sat on committees intended to design Web sites by consensus and