What are the statics of a programming language? Most programming languages exhibit a phase distinction between static and dynamic phase of processing. People sometime loosey say static of a…
Read MoreWould spamming the noexcept keyword make your code faster? Sometimes. But not always. Consider the following snippet of code: I intentionally do not define g in this translation unit since…
Read MoreFrom a layman's perspective, the field of programming language research is full of jargon, greek letters, and weird symbols. On the one hand, Those common parlances make the programming language…
Read MoreThe const type qualifier is one of the jewels of the C++ language design. Surrounding by this feature, we devise the " const correctness" practice to prevent const objects from getting mutated…
Read MoreAt CppCon 2019, I gave a lightning talk at called Make Impossible State Unrepresentable . Due to the nature of a 5 minutes lightning talk, it was handwavy, and I cut a lot of prepared contents to…
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