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Enumeration Constants vs. Constant Objects Presents insights on choosing between symbolic constants as either enumeration constants or constant objects. http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20011129S0065 Passing By Reference-to-const Explains why the rules for initializing references make passing by reference-to-const an efficient and attractive alternative to passing by value. http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20010919S0041 Director of Casting Presents a set of guidelines for using cast operators. http://www.kbcafe.com/articles/casting.html Symbolic Constants Shows all choices for defining symbolic constants. http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20011016S0116 Herb Sutter - Publications Over 80 in-depth articles about object-oriented software development and C++ design and programming have been published in C/C++ Users Journal, C++ Report, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Java Report, Visual C++ Developer's Journal, and other magazines. http://www.gotw.ca/publications/ C++ Idioms Recasts the well-known idioms of "Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms" in pattern form and organizes these idioms into a true pattern language. http://www1.bell-labs.com/user/cope/Patterns/C%2b%2bIdioms/EuroPLoP98.html Mixing C and C++ Code in the Same Program How-to article by Stephen Clamage. http://developers.sun.com/tools/cc/articles/mixing.html Casting in C++ In-depth information on the four new casting operators available in C++. Written for those who know C++ but are using the old C-style casts. http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-1/ovp3-1.html C++ Type Reflection Support Based at Type Traits Proposal. http://www.devphil.com/~pme/reflection.html C++ in the Real World This article explores the strengths of C++, and how to exploit them in projects. http://www.cantrip.org/realworld.html Reference Initializations Explains how the rules for initializing references differ from the rules for initializing pointers. http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20010821S0089 The const Qualifier Explains the use of the const qualifier on small code snippets. (by Carlo Wood) http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/c++/const.qualifier.html What is Koenig Lookup? A definition of argument-dependent name lookup with examples for application with HP aC++. http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechDocumentDetailPage_IDX/1,1701,990,00.html Pointers to C++ Member Functions Discusses what member function pointers are, shows how to declare and use them, and gives some examples of problems that they solve very well. http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/memberpointers/ Create Movie from HBitmap Discribe creating AVI/WMV/QuickTime movies from sequences of bitmaps with sourcecode examples. http://www.geocities.com/krishnapg/createmovie.html C++?? : A Critique of C++ A Critique of C++ and Programming and Language Trends of the 1990s. [Postscript] http://mis.ucd.ie/courses/misp617/mms406/CPPCV3.ps About.com C/C++ Weekly Features Archive of articles covering programming topics related to C and C++. http://cplus.about.com/library/weekly/mpreviss.htm C++: Beyond The Standard Library Takes a look at Blitz++, MTL (Matrix Template Library), ACE, Loki and Boost. http://www.cprogrammingtrends.com/cprogrammingtrends-43-20030728CBeyondTheStandardLibrary.html Constant Objects and Constant Expressions Explains why constant objects are not as useful as some people would like them to be. http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20011220S0063 Type Traits Proposal A proposal to add Type Traits to the C++ Standard Library. http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2002/n1345.html The Anatomy of the Assignment Operator In depth discussion of writing solid assignment operators. Explains exception safety and memory management issues. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-assignment-operator/ The Design and Implementation of SPECS: An Alternative C++ Syntax By B.M. Werther and D.M. Conway, Dept. Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne. [PDF] http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/PDF/SPECS.pdf C++ Optimizations List of C++ source code optimizations that can give big returns, especially when used in tight loops. By Andrew S. Winter. http://www.custard.org/%7eandrew/optimize.php Creating Truly Maintainable Class Factories Presents a solution that is easily extensible and maintainable; what's more, it is particularly well suited to creating objects from XML data. http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=8033/cuj0011ehlinger/ Functional Style in C++ Discusses closures, late binding, and lambda abstractions. http://zowie.metnet.navy.mil/~oleg/ftp/c++-digest/Functional-Cpp.html Contracts: From Analysis to C++ Implementation Describes a set of techniques and tools (an environment) facilitating prototyping of, providing general mechanisms for, object-oriented architectures based on the idea of assertion checking and Design by Contract (DbC) in C++. http://fodok.uni-linz.ac.at/JKUFODOK/ENGLISH/RU_246000-9104/PUB_1999/PUB_32893.html Publications by Bjarne Stroustrup Reasonably complete list of Bjarne's publications. http://www.research.att.com/~bs/papers.html Concrete data types How to build concrete data types, and, along the way, pick up on some subtleties of the C++ language itself. By Jody Hagins. http://www.tietovayla.fi/BORLAND/CPLUS/bcppbuilder/4/news/zd/1999/feb99/ C++: Under the Hood Explains run-time C++ implementation details such as class layout techniques and the virtual function call mechanism. http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/en-us/dnarvc/html/jangrayhood.asp?frame=true

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