If you’re new to C++11, this post on Stackoverflow answers the question “How do I pass a unique_ptr argument to a constructor or a function?” going through each case:
There is a type of code smell I’ve noticed in C++ code recently, but I would imagine it extends to other languages as well. Consider this class:
class Widget
{
public:
const std::string Name() const;
const SomeComplexObject SomeMethod() const;
};
Now consider this class
class Gadget
{
public:
void ShowName(const Widget & widget) const { std::cout << widget.Name(); }
};
I’ve just watched Herb Sutter‘s talk on C++ in Visual Studio 2013 and onwards.
The last quarter of the talk was concerned with Microsoft introducing the __async and __await keywords in a similar implementation to that already used in C#, note the __ prefix.
As he explained, this is going to be an implementation of a proposed feature for inclusion in a future version of C++, much like the modules feature currently being implemented in CLang.
The Visual Studio roadmap was intertesting, but it looks like we’re going to have to wait a while for generic lambdas.
A colleague sent on these useful links (ironically, I sit opposite him) that are background or ambient noise generators to drown out the noise of co-workers talking, and generally making noise:
I thought I would play around with CLang 3.2 on Kubuntu, and needed a quick way to build my code without going through the 1970/80/90s pain of messing around with makefiles and all the associated tab-space nonsense. Rakefiles seemed a good fit.
I am running Gnome 2.4 on Debian, and it’s been a while since I’ve hacked an xorg.conf file. So long in fact, that you don’t need to do that any more: you now use xrandr.
Since I’m using git a little bit more often now, this is just a little note to remind me how to do things in git that I would usually do in svn or hg. Yet another git cheatsheet!