For several reasons, I didn’t get a CppCon ticket this year, but since I live in the Denver metro area I did go on the Friday, which is free to attend. Herb’s closing keynote (Cpp2) was thought provoking. At one point though, he said, Think about the words and the…

We’ve had a couple of ways to spell functions for a long time: And we’ve had a shortcut for that second one for a while, too: (Aside: notice where [[nodiscard]] is positioned, since C++23’s P2173, to apply to the lambda’s call operator.) All these ways to spell functions look the…

The Set-up In C++, this doesn’t work: The compiler complains, quite rightly: Despite the fact that twice_square is a constexpr function, its parameter x is not constexpr. We can’t use it in a static_assert, we can’t pass it to a template, we can’t call an immediate (consteval) function with it….

A lot has already been said in the blogosphere about the use of immediately-invoked lambda expressions (IILEs) for initialization, and they’re certainly very useful. In C++20, P0428 gives us “familiar template syntax” for lambdas. Now, instead of writing a regular generic lambda: we have the option to use “familiar template…

I’ve been programming in C++ for almost a quarter of a century now. I grew up, professionally, with C++, and in many ways, it grew up along with me. For someone who is used to C++, even used to recently-standardised C++, it’s hard not to feel apprehension when looking at…

TL;DR: The C++ committee isn’t following some sort of agenda to ignore the needs of game programmers, and “modern” C++ isn’t going to become undebuggable. — Over the past week there has been an ongoing conversation on Twitter about how many people — especially those in the games industry —…

Note: the following applies to Microsoft’s compiler only — not to GCC or Clang. Pointers-to-member-functions (PMFs) are a bit off the beaten track in C++. They aren’t very syntactically pleasing, and they aren’t as easy to deal with as regular pointers-to-free-functions (PFFs). But they still see use, particularly in pre-C++11…

Last week, a little fewer than 150 C++ programmers gathered in Aspen, CO for C++Now 2018. This year the conference was scheduled before Mother’s Day, so with it being quite a bit earlier than usual, I was half-expecting snow and travel delays. In fact last week turned out to be…