I admit. C++ Strong Duck , is a click bait title. Perhaps.
Please first make a slight detour into the direction of “Strong Type by Struct“.
C++ Strong Duck
C++ Windows Unicode Console Output
Update 2019 04 15
I have released, a new version of my console app, to help you set up your Windows console to show UTF-8 text properly.
It is more comfortable. It also produces syslog output, for the enterprise or data center situations.
C++ lvalues, rvalues, glvalues, xvalues, making you leave the party?
No need. Please read this first. Continue reading “C++ lvalues, rvalues, glvalues, xvalues, making you leave the party?”
C++ modern but non-existent code
The “crown jewel” of the post first. I use standard C++ and this macro (gasp!):
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | #ifndef DBJ_REMOVE // guaranteed no evaluation // guaranteed zero bytes overhead // can be placed in any scope #define DBJ_REMOVE(...) \ static_assert( (noexcept(__VA_ARGS__),true) ) #endif |
Any number of any legal arguments works. In or out of functions. In or out a namespace.
That is runtime zero cost. noexcept is compile time affair. And since the result is cast to “nothing” aka void that compiles to exactly 0 bytes.
The philosophy
How to avoid implicit conversion in C++
nothing_but<T>
Value Handle to Avoid Implicit Conversions in standard C++
Introduction
“… C++ is not a bad language per se. It’s just, well kinda suffers from bloat. In the words of Richard E. Gooch, “It seduces the programmer, making it much easier to write bloatware“…”
The source
