Fun with C++14 Lambdas at Silicon Valley Code Camp

Believe it or not, but the 9th Silicon Valley Code Camp is less than 2 weeks away and I can't wait to be at the largest software techno...

Short-circuiting overloaded && and || using expression templates

This blog post is just a quick note that C++ offers (at least) two distinct ways to represent lazy computation that is lexically in the sam...

Fun with Lambdas: C++14 Style (part 3)

Now that we have C++14 , it has opened up doors for truly mind-bending uses of lambdas--more specifically--generic lambdas. This blog post i...

Using The Pigeonhole Principle in C++ Metaprogramming

The Pigeonhole Principle  is one of the most obvious fundamentals in mathematics. It is so obvious that you may be surprised that there is e...

A tale of noexcept swap for user-defined classes in C++11

C++11 has taken another stab at function exception specifications for the masses. The shiny new ‘noexcept’ keyword is phasing out its zombie...

Fun with Lambdas: C++14 Style (part 2)

Look at some interesting examples of C++11/14 lambdas and how they interact with other language features and libraries. I hope to find some ...

Why we need compile-time reflection in C++1y

Programs need data. That's a no brainer. Programs are only as good as the data you provide them. Based on what kind of data is consumed,...

Fun with Lambdas: C++14 Style (part 1)

It's common knowledge that Functional Programming is spreading like a wildfire in mainstream languages. Latest promoted languages: Java ...