Higher Order Fun

… in C++. That seems like a fundamentally wrong statement to make right? C++ has been greatly improving over the last few standards in its direct support for a more functional style of programming. But it’s still much more verbose than necessary to write a simple lambda, it’s surprisingly tricky...

Sep 23, 2018 c++ c++ c++17 c++20

Quirks in Class Template Argument Deduction

Before C++17, template deduction [basically] worked in two situations: deduction function parameters in function templates and deducing auto for variables/return types in functions. There was no mechanism to deduce template parameters in class templates. The result of that was— whenever you used...

Sep 1, 2018 c++ c++ c++17