Who
Aaron Ballman is a senior software engineer for a leading colorimetric software company. He has over a decade of experience writing cross-platform frameworks in C/C++, compiler & language design, and software engineering best practices.
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Tag Archives: C++0x
Delegating Constructors
Delegating constructors are one of those minor language features that don’t get a lot of headlines, but make a programmer’s life much easier. It’s not likely something you’ll use on a daily basis, but it is something you will run … Continue reading
Typesafe Enumerations
C++0x has a lot of great new features included in it. However, the “flashier” features like lambda functions have the tendency to overshadow other features. One of those features which I am guessing will be overshadowed is the ability to … Continue reading
Automatic Type Inference
One of the nice new features introduced by C++0x is automatic type inference for declarations. Essentially, it means that the compiler will figure out the declaration type based on information from the right-hand side of the expression. If you come … Continue reading
Lambdas
What is likely to be considered the biggest, sexiest feature of the new C++0x specification goes by many names. Some folks call them “function objects”, others call them “closures”, and still others call them “lambda functions.” Regardless of what you … Continue reading
C++ Gets For-Each
One of the new language features that has been added to C++0x is the for-each syntax. Anything which defines a range can be iterated over by the new syntax, including arrays, anything you can call begin and end on, or … Continue reading
