There is a part of C++ developers that appreciate template metaprogramming. And there are all the other C++ developers. While I consider myself falling rather in the camp of the aficionados, I’ve met a lot more people that don’t have a strong interest for it, or that even find it downright disgusting, than TMP enthusiasts. Which camp do you […]
This post is part of the series on strong types: Strongly typed constructors Strong types for strong interfaces Passing strong types by reference Strong lambdas: strong typing over generic types Good news: strong types are (mostly) free in C++ Inheriting functionalities from the underlying type Making strong types hashable Converting strong units to one another Metaclasses, the […]
Code sprawling over multiple lines of code and getting drowned into low-level details is typically hindering expressiveness. But cramming everything into one single statement is not always the right thing to do either. As an example, here is a buggy code that was spotted and fixed by my colleague Benoît (context has been obfuscated in […]
Strong types are a simple and efficient tool for improving code expressiveness, by letting you express your intentions better to both the compiler and to your fellow human companions. This post is part of the series about strong types, that keeps growing because it is such a rich topic: Strongly typed constructors Strong types for strong […]
Comments are one of these places where religion meets technology. On one side there are the firm believers that good code is commented code, and on the other side stand the devout to the scarcest commenting chapel. We can’t discuss expressive code and not talk about comments at some point. Is code expressiveness an alternative to comments, or are the […]
My colleague and friend Jonathan came up to me the other day with this request: “Jonathan”, he said – you won’t have too many names to remember to follow this story – “Jonathan, how would you go about restricting the methods of an interface? We’ve got a class which we use in a broader context, […]
For the third time I attended the meetup of Software Craftmanship in Paris. And like the first time and the second one, it was superb experience again. This meetup lets the participants collectively choose the topics to be discussed. There I proposed to confront, as a group, the various languages that the people in the room knew (the […]
Today is Pi Day!! To celebrate, we launched a challenge for the most expressive code on Fluent C++, and today is the outcome of this challenge! Thank you so much for all of you that submitted a solution. I sincerely hope that you enjoyed participating to this challenge, and learned some things in the process. And […]
Each year, the fourteenth of March is marked by a very special event: Pi Day! It’s called this because in American notation, the 14th of March is 3/14. And during this day, the number Pi is celebrated all over the world in various ways. One notable way to celebrate it is bringing a pie to work or to university. […]
Last week held the monthly meetup of Software Craftsmanship in my area. The organizer, Stéphane Bagnier, proposed a very original and interesting schedule for the evening. After a short series of brief and spontaneous presentations, any attendee could propose a topic he found worth spending time talking about, and then everyone got to vote. The 2 topics receiving the […]
