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pointer cause decay, references do not. Decay means loss of type information. In C and C++, an array name 'decays' to pointer to t...
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An interesting consequence of decay related rules of pointers and references is that seemingly correct C++ code fails to compile. We hav...
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Conventionally, std::cin, std::cout are buffererd and std::cerr is not buffered. Unbuffered streams are written to device immediately. In ge...
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A "thunk" appears to be an overloaded term in computer science. Use of the word "thunk" goes back to Algol 60 implementa...
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In C++, default arguments of global scope functions can be changed easily. Typically we use a constant expression as a default argument. C...
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This time lets take a brief look at some nifty C++ idioms in the Boost peer-reviewed libraries. We will talk about Boost Base-from-Member i...
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Reading entire file in one go. Solution 1: std::ifstream in("circle.cc"); std::istreambuf_iterator < char > begin(in), e...
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Some syntax clarification: This is a short syntax tutorial for upcoming posts. int *p; // a pointer to an integer int &p; // a refer...
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It is a C++ idiom in which inheritance and template type parameters are cleverly integrated to generate flexible types at compile-time. In C...
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In one of my previous posts I described a few ways of swapping two numbers using xor operation in a sinlge line. The discussion is not corr...