A user-defined conversion function enables an implicit or explicit conversion between types. Such, a function has the following form (no return type and no parameters):
struct foo
{
operator int() const {return 42;}
};
foo f;
int i = f; // implicit conversion
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If you wanted to create templates with non-type template parameters, you had to specify both the type and the value. In C++17, this is no longer the case, as template <auto> helps simplify these scenarios.
Read More template <auto>Initialization of variables in C++ can have several forms: default initialization: std::string s; value initialization: std::string s{}; direct initialization: std::string s(“demo”); copy initialization: std::string s = “demo”; list initialization: std::string s{‘d’, ‘e’, ‘m’, ‘o’}; aggregate initialization: char s[5] = {‘d’, ‘e’, ‘m’, ‘o’}; reference initialization: char& c = s[0]; C++11 introduced a generalized syntax for…
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Read More Visual Studio 2010 changes for VC++ (part 3)The new C++0x standard provides support for type inference. The auto keyword that was doing nothing in C++ was given a new meaning: a placeholder for a type inferred by the compiler. For those familiar with C#’s var keyword, this is basically the same. Here is a comparison between auto in C++ and var in…
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