The C++ Super-FAQ (Marshall Cline, Bjarne Stroustrup, and others) is an effort by the Standard C++ Foundation to unify the C++ FAQs previously maintained individually by Marshall Cline and Bjarne …

Sep 11, 2009 · From the C++ standard, 3.1 (2): A declaration is a definition unless it declares a function without specifying the function's body, it contains the extern specifier or a linkage-specification and …

Nov 18, 2023 · The C++ template system is meta programming since it doesn't simply do textual substitution (as the c preprocessor does) but has a (complex and inefficient) means of interacting …

If you need to look up a symbol or operators for a particular programming languages, it's best to simply search for the language (like "C++ programming language").

int qempty() { return (f == r ? 1 : 0); } In the above snippet, what does "?" mean? What can we replace it with?

Java and C++, for example, are both compiled languages, but many would consider C++ to be a lower level language than Java because it exposes low level system access, while Java runs in a protected …

Jun 25, 2009 · Generic data pointer: void* data -- 'data' is a pointer to data of unknown type, and cannot be dereferenced Note: the void in a function argument is optional in C++, so int myFunc() is exactly …

Jan 22, 2009 · While C is a pure procedural language, C++ is a multi-paradigm language. It supports Generic programming: Allowing to write code once, and use it with different data-structures. Meta …

I couldn't disagree more. Learning C++ first makes for a very difficult experience "going back" to C. C is a fundamental, basics-only systems language. C++ is a whole new ballgame, approaches to any …

C++ template metaprogramming gives you all kind of new capabilities like passing types or list of types as arguments etc. Most of these capabilities are present in dynamically typed languages like python, …