Here is my list of good reads from September:
September good reads
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Tag: standard
August good reads
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Here is my list of good reads from August:
C++17 removed and deprecated features
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Along with the new features added to the language and the standard library in C++17, there are also existing features that have been either removed (after being deprecated in a previous version) or deprecated so they would be removed sometime in the future. Although not complete, the following tables list the most important of these removed or deprecated features.
C++ fun strange facts
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The title might be a little bit misleading because, on one hand, you might not find these things funny if you are stumbling upon them and not understanding what is going on, and, on the other hand, they are not really strange when you pay attention to what is going on. However, here is a list of five (randomly picked) C++ features that would probably get you giving a second thought to what’s going on.
stduuid – A C++ library for universally unique identifiers
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I have recently submitted a proposal for a new standard library for universally unique identifiers. The library is called uuid and the paper, P0959R0 – A Proposal for a Universally Unique Identifier Library, is available on Github. The design of the library is inspired by the Boost Uuid Library and the Crossuuid library. I got lots of great feedback that shaped the formed of the proposal from people on the ISO C++ Standard – Future Proposals forum.
New standard library features in Visual C++ 2017 RC
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The new Visual C++ 2017, currently in release candidate phase, provides a series of updates and fixes to both the C++ compiler and the standard library. A comprehensive list of these improvements is available at What’s New for Visual C++ in Visual Studio 2017 RC. In this article, I want to shortly look at the…
Impressions from the ISO C++ committee meetings in Issaquah
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Last week I was in Redmond for the Microsoft MVP 2016 Summit. At the same time, the ISO C++ committee was having its fall meeting in Issaquah, which is very close to Redmond. Therefore, after the summit ended, a group of VC++ MVPs, including myself, decided to make the short trip to Issaquah and attend…
Top 10 features that I miss from C++
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DISCLAIMER: the following is a pure hypothetical list of wishes I had about C++. You should treat it as it is. This is not supposed to be a collection of community agreed list of wishes, nor it is intended to make complete sense, as some of these features are available through the standard library. Please…
C++17 standard a major… disappointment
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C++17 was supposed to be a major update of the C++ ISO standard. After the Jacksonville meeting (29.02 – 05.03) it looks like it’s rather going to be a major disappointment. I’m not trying to downplay the things that have been voted into the C++17 standard so far, but all major features we hoped for…
Extension methods in C++
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A few days ago Bjarne Stroustrup has published a proposal paper (N4174) to the C++ standard committee called Call syntax: x.f(y) vs. f(x,y). The following excerpt from the paper summarizes the proposal: The basic suggestion is to define x.f(y) and f(x,y) to be equivalent. In addition, to increase compatibility and modularity, I suggest we explore…