Parameterized Functions
I was recently playing around with Perl 6, where I encountered dynamic variables, which are looked up in the dynamic scope at runtime. This means that »
A Tour of Rare C++ Features 7 of 7: The Comma and Ternary Operators
In the previous installment of this series we dealt with if statements, function style casts and grouping digits of numbers. This time, our focus will lie »
Fully Qualified Out-of-Line Definitions
Recently I stumbled upon a piece of C++ code that fails to compile with Clang, although it works with gcc just fine. Since I was unable »
A Tour of Rare C++ Features 6 of 7: Declaring Variables in If Statements, Function Style Casts and Digit Grouping
In the previous installment of this series we dealt with the function declaration from hell. This post will focus on the if/else that follows it »
A Tour of Rare C++ Features 5 of 7: The Function Declaration from Hell
In the previous installment we discovered the ancient Digraphs and Trigraphs, as well as the more modern lambda expressions. This post focuses on the type from »
Comprehensive C++ Lambda Overview
This article is intended to be a comprehensive but still understandable and beginner-friendly overview over lambda functions in C++. Any section marked as "advanced" can be »
Fold Expressions
While implementing a logging facility I recently stumbled across a problem that can be reduced to the following: Inside a variadic function template, if the log »