Month: January 2019

C++ code samples before and after Ranges

Posted on by Marius Bancila

The Ranges library proposal has been accepted for C++20 at the San Diego meeting of the standard committee in November last year. The library provides components for handling ranges of values aimed at simplifying our code. Unfortunately, the Ranges library is not very well documented, which makes it harder to grasp for those that want to learn it. This post is intended as an introduction based on examples of code written with and without Ranges.

Understanding equal_range

Posted on by Marius Bancila

std::equal_range is a general purpose standard algorithm used to find a sub-range of values in a given sorted or at least partitioned range. In this post, I will explain how the algorithm works.

A first look at Visual Studio 2019

Posted on by Marius Bancila

The first preview version of Visual Studio 2019 is available since the beginning of December 2018. I decided to take a look to see what is different from the previous Visual Studio 2017 version. In this post, I will present some of the things that are new or changed in this new version.