C++

BoostCon 2008 Now Open For Registration
Hi All, The 2nd annual Boost Conference has been scheduled for May 4-9 2008. Please see http://www.boostcon.com/registration for registration information. If you want to stay at the Aspen Meadows (highly recommended as it is within walking distance of the conference venue and was the site of great after-hours... 25 Jan 2008 12:47

ISO standards
Why hasn't ISO seen it needed to change the vector library to one that is i easy to use like the string library? With <string> using std:::string; I can create string objects like "string st, str;" and work from within the class implementation. The vector libray should be the same. Yes, objects are created and th... 1 Feb 2008 00:44

templates and virtual functions
Is it possible to have templates in a base class which are 'virtual'? class base { public: template <class T> int foo(T) {std::cout << "base class\n";}; }; class derived : public base { public: template <class T> int foo(T) {std::cout << "derived class\n";... 26 Jan 2008 01:08

Using boost::lambda with std::count_if
francis_r <francis.rammeloo(a)gmail.com> writes: I have following class: class User { public: enum Status { Online, Away Offline }; User(const std::string & name, Status status); Status status() const; const std:... 25 Jan 2008 10:33

Cross Platform clear terminal
Hello folks. I've been reading a few C++ books, trying to teach myself as much about the language as I can. So far, so good, until I encountered my first cross-platform problem. I've been doing my developing in FreeBSD, and testing the portability in Win32 using the Bloodshed Dev-C++ IDE and MinGW compiler. ... 25 Jan 2008 10:33

STL: Sorting and grouping...
"Francis Glassborow" <francis.glassborow(a)btinternet.com> wrote in message news:VsqdnUo_wrrPRKfanZ2dnUVZ8smgnZ2d(a)bt.com... t.lehmann(a)rtsgroup.net wrote: I'm pretty sure a single call to std::sort won't make it. You'd first need to sort it "normally". Then, divide it into groups based on their d... 23 Jan 2008 07:09

Safe And Efficient Programming With C++
{ Edits: quoted clc++m banner removed. Please don't quote signatures or the clc++m banner. Modern newsreader programs (except Google's web based interface) remove these parts automatically. -mod } <frankgerlach(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:1195030089.606935.66940(a)k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com... First I... 27 Jan 2008 06:37

Get pointer of derived class type without dynamic_cast
I'm in a situation where I am defining a C++ API representing an interface such that different applications can use the interface, yet there can be different libraries that implement the interface. The goal is for the applications to be able to be run against a test library implementing the interface as well as ... 25 Jan 2008 10:33

Unit testing framework for C++
On Jan 21, 8:45 am, ap...(a)student.open.ac.uk wrote: On 20 Jan, 04:23, Ric Parkin <ric.par...(a)gmail.com> wrote: On Jan 18, 11:00 pm, Dilip <rdil...(a)lycos.com> wrote: but it looks like Microsoft has released an unit testing framework for C++ called WinUnit. Why am I not suprised that this i... 26 Jan 2008 08:59

C++0x/1x exception specifications proposal: Compile-time checked
Ioannis Vranos ha scritto: Perhaps a mechanism can be introduced in the C++0x/1x standard, I still prefer calling it C++0x and wish it can be approved before the end of the decade... something simple like defining a function as: void somefunc(void) throw() { // ... } and gett... 28 Jan 2008 14:47