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An introduction to C++ templates

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd
Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.
Glennan Carnie

Introduction

Templates are a very powerful – but often very confusing – mechanism within C++. However, approached in stages, templates can be readily understood (despite their heinous syntax).

The aim of this series of articles is to guide beginners through the syntax and semantics of the foundation concepts in C++ template

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L-values, r-values, expressions and types

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd
Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.
Glennan Carnie

Simple question: Why does this code compile?

…and this code doesn’t?

The compiler gives the following:

L-values

What is this ‘l-value’ thing? When (most of us) were taught C we were told an l-value is a value that can be placed on the left-hand-side of an assignment expression. However, that doesn’t give much of a clue as to what might constitute an l-value; so most of the time we resort to guessing and trial-and-error.

Basically, an l-value is a named object; which may be modifiable […]

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