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• Do we still have a case against the goto statement? [closed]

  - by FredOverflow

  Possible Duplicate: Is it ever worthwhile using goto? In a recent article, Andrew Koenig writes: When asked why goto statements are harmful, most programmers will say something like "because they make programs hard to understand." Press harder, and you may well hear something like "I don't really know, but that's what I was taught." For…

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• Prefer algorithms to hand-written loops?

  - by FredOverflow

  Which of the following to you find more readable? The hand-written loop: for (std::vector<Foo>::const_iterator it = vec.begin(); it != vec.end(); ++it) { bar.process(*it); } Or the algorithm invocation: #include <algorithm> #include <functional> std::for_each(vec.begin(), vec.end(), …

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• Where did the notion of "one return only" come from?

  - by FredOverflow

  I often talk to Java programmers who say "Don't put multiple return statements in the same method." When I ask them to tell me the reasons why, all I get is "The coding standard says so." or "It's confusing." When they show me solutions with a single return statement, the code looks uglier to me. For example: if…

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• Design patterns: when to use and when to stop doing everything using patterns

  - by honeybadger

  This question arises due to comment of FredOverflow in my previous post. Design pattern used in projects I am quite confused by the comment. I know design pattern help in making code reusable and readable (may lack in efficiency a bit). But when to use design patterns and most importantly when to stop doing…

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• Language-agnostic term for typed things that need memory

  - by FredOverflow

  Is there an accepted general term that subsumes the concepts of variables, class instances and arrays? Basically "any typed thing that needs memory". In C++, such a thing is called an object, but I'm looking for a more language-agnostic term. § 1.8 The C++ object model 1 The constructs in a C++ program…

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• How do boost operators work?

  - by FredOverflow

  boost::operators automatically defines operators like + based on manual implementations like += which is very useful. To generate those operators for T, one inherits from boost::operators<T> as shown by the boost example: class MyInt : boost::operators<MyInt> I am familiar with the CRTP pattern,…

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• Throwing a new exception while throwing an old exception

  - by FredOverflow

  If a destructor throws in C++ during stack unwinding caused by an exception, the program terminates. (That's why destructors should never throw in C++.) If a finally block is entered in Java because of an exception in the corresponding try block and that finally block throws another exception, the first…

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• Does reserving capacity incur two allocations or just one?

  - by FredOverflow

  std::vector<T> vec; // line #1 vec.reserve(100); // line #2 I am wondering if line #1 triggers a small allocation (say, memory for 10 Ts), or if the first allocation happens on line #2. Does the standard say anything about that?

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• About long long and long double

  - by FredOverflow

  Since when have they been part of standard C++? I think long long is a C++0x feature, is that right? What about long double? Was that already in C++98 or C++03?

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• Throwing an exception while handling an exception

  - by FredOverflow

  If a destructor throws in C++ during stack unwinding caused by an exception, the program terminates. (That's why destructors should never throw in C++.) If a finally block is entered in Java because of an exception in the corresponding try block and that finally block throws another exception, the first…

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• non-class rvalues always have cv-unqualified types

  - by FredOverflow

  §3.10 section 9 says "non-class rvalues always have cv-unqualified types". That made me wonder... int foo() { return 5; } const int bar() { return 5; } void pass_int(int&& i) { std::cout << "rvalue\n"; } void pass_int(const int&& i) { std::cout << "const…

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• weak references and garbage collection

  - by FredOverflow

  Suppose I have a weak reference to a car which has an ordinary reference to an engine. No other references to the car or the engine exist. Can the engine be garbage collected?

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• Official names for pointer operators

  - by FredOverflow

  What are the official names for the operators * and & in the context of pointers? They seem to be frequently called dereference operator and address-of operator respectively, but unfortunately, the section on unary operators in the standard does not name them. I really don't want to name &…

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• Exceptions in constructors

  - by FredOverflow

  In C++, the lifetime of an object begins when the constructor finishes successfully. Inside the constructor, the object does not exist yet. Q: What does emitting an exception from a constructor mean? A: It means that construction has failed, the object never existed, its lifetime never…

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• Syntax for specializing function templates

  - by FredOverflow

  Is there a difference between the following approaches? // approach 1 namespace std { template<> void swap<Foo>(Foo& x, Foo& y) // note the <Foo> { x.swap(y); } } // approach 2 namespace std { template<> void swap(Foo& x,…

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• initializer_list and move semantics

  - by FredOverflow

  Am I allowed to move elements out of a std::initializer_list<T>? #include <initializer_list> #include <utility> template<typename T> void foo(std::initializer_list<T> list) { for (auto it = list.begin(); it != list.end(); ++it) { …

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• How do I emphasize parts of an lstlisting?

  - by FredOverflow

  How can I set certain parts of an lstlisting in boldface? \begin{lstlisting}[escapechar=@] fun(foo, bar, @\textbf{baz}@ ); \end{lstlisting} This compiles, but baz isn't set in boldface :( What am I missing?

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• std::string x(x);

  - by FredOverflow

  std::string x(x); This crashes very badly on my compiler. Does this mean I should test for this != &that in my own copy constructors, or can I assume that no client will ever be so stupid?

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• Why is it called CopyConstruct_i_ble?

  - by FredOverflow

  As a non-native english speaker, I was wondering why the concept of being able to be constructed by the copy constructor is called CopyConstructible (as opposed to CopyConstructable). What are the exact rules that require an i instead of an a?

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• Making swap faster, easier to use and exception-safe

  - by FredOverflow

  I could not sleep last night and started thinking about std::swap. Here is the familiar C++98 version: template <typename T> void swap(T& a, T& b) { T c(a); a = b; b = c; } If a user-defined class Foo uses external ressources, this is inefficient.…

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• Move from *this in an rvalue method?

  - by FredOverflow

  In C++0x, methods can be overloaded on whether or not the expression that denotes the object on which the method is called is an lvalue or an rvalue. If I return *this from a method called via an rvalue, do I need to explicitly move from *this or not? Foo Foo::method()…

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• Is there something like find_if in Java?

  - by FredOverflow

  In C++, I can use find_if with a predicate to find an element in a container. Is there something like that in Java? The contains method on collections uses equals and can not be parameterized.

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• How does volatile actually work?

  - by FredOverflow

  Marking a variable as volatile in Java ensures that every thread sees the value that was last written to it instead of some stale value. I was wondering how this is actually achieved. Does the JVM emit special instructions that flush the CPU cashes or something?

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• object representation and value representation

  - by FredOverflow

  3.9 §4 says: The object representation of an object of type T is the sequence of N unsigned char objects taken up by the object of type T, where N equals sizeof(T). The value representation of an object is the set of bits that hold the value of type T. For trivially…

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• Statements and state

  - by FredOverflow

  Is there any deeper meaning in the fact that the word "statement" starts with the word "state", or is that just a curious coincidence? Note that english is not my native language, so the answer might be obvious to you, but not me ;)

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