Compiling a C++ program takes place in several steps, as specified by 2.2 (credits to Keith Thompson for the reference): The precedence among the syntax rules of translation is specified by the following phases [see footnote]. Physical source file characters are mapped, in an implementation-defined manner, to the basic source character set (introducing new-line characters for end-of-line indicators) … Read more
The problem C++ includes useful generic functions like std::for_each and std::transform, which can be very handy. Unfortunately they can also be quite cumbersome to use, particularly if the functor you would like to apply is unique to the particular function. If you only use f once and in that specific place it seems overkill to … Read more
This is not related to performance at all. But consider this: you are using two libraries called Foo and Bar: Everything works fine, and you can call Blah() from Foo and Quux() from Bar without problems. But one day you upgrade to a new version of Foo 2.0, which now offers a function called Quux(). … Read more
Compiling a C++ program takes place in several steps, as specified by 2.2 (credits to Keith Thompson for the reference): The precedence among the syntax rules of translation is specified by the following phases [see footnote]. Physical source file characters are mapped, in an implementation-defined manner, to the basic source character set (introducing new-line characters for end-of-line indicators) … Read more
A pointer can be re-assigned:int x = 5; int y = 6; int *p; p = &x; p = &y; *p = 10; assert(x == 5); assert(y == 10); A reference cannot be re-bound, and must be bound at initialization:int x = 5; int y = 6; int &q; // error int &r = x; … Read more