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Apache C++ Standard Library (The starting point for this library was the 2005 version of the Rogue Wave standard library [14]) Libstdc++ uses code derived from SGI STL for the algorithms and containers defined in C++03. Dinkum STL library by P.J. Plauger; The Microsoft STL which ships with Visual C++ is a licensed derivative of Dinkum's STL.
const (computer programming) In some programming languages, const is a type qualifier (a keyword applied to a data type) that indicates that the data is read-only. While this can be used to declare constants, const in the C family of languages differs from similar constructs in other languages in that it is part of the type, and thus has ...
In the C++ programming language, a copy constructor is a special constructor for creating a new object as a copy of an existing object. Copy constructors are the standard way of copying objects in C++, as opposed to cloning, and have C++-specific nuances. The first argument of such a constructor is a reference to an object of the same type as ...
Unnamed numerical constants. [] The term magic number or magic constant refers to the anti-pattern of using numbers directly in source code. This has been referred to as breaking one of the oldest rules of programming, dating back to the COBOL, FORTRAN and PL/1 manuals of the 1960s. [ 1 ] The use of unnamed magic numbers in code obscures the ...
Curiously recurring template pattern. The curiously recurring template pattern ( CRTP) is an idiom, originally in C++, in which a class X derives from a class template instantiation using X itself as a template argument. [ 1] More generally it is known as F-bound polymorphism, and it is a form of F -bounded quantification .
Most C code can easily be made to compile correctly in C++ but there are a few differences that cause some valid C code to be invalid or behave differently in C++. For example, C allows implicit conversion from void * to other pointer types but C++ does not (for type safety reasons).
Rule of three. The rule of three (also known as the law of the big three or the big three) is a rule of thumb in C++ (prior to C++11) that claims that if a class defines any of the following then it should probably explicitly define all three: [1] destructor. copy constructor. copy assignment operator. These three functions are special member ...
Expression templates. Expression templates are a C++ template metaprogramming technique that builds structures representing a computation at compile time, where expressions are evaluated only as needed to produce efficient code for the entire computation. [1] Expression templates thus allow programmers to bypass the normal order of evaluation ...