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Edit Post #291429 Initial revision 8 months ago
Answer A: Can I conditionally include class members without using #ifdef?
There's nothing as elegant as `if constexpr`, unfortunately. However, it is possible to achieve the practical effects (member functions and data only present conditionally). Start by creating a class template that will encapsulate all the `fooBar`-specific code and data. Use the Curiously Recurrin...
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8 months ago
Comment Post #291371 The good programmer has as many tools in their toolbox as they can get, and use the best one for the job, evaluating simplicity, performance, maintainability, reliability, etc. all jointly. Shoehorning everything into `std::vector` is just as bad as using a `std::map` whose maximum size will never ex...
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Edit Post #291371 Initial revision 8 months ago
Answer A: When to use custom iterators versus pointers
> However, I suspect that most iterators can be written as iterating over an array. From my experience, I wouldn't expect this to be the case. From the standard library containers, only `std::vector` and `std::array` can work with iterators implemented as pointers. All the other containers have...
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Edit Post #280674 Initial revision almost 4 years ago
Answer A: Destroy std::mutex referenced but not owned by std::unique_lock?
No, such an operation is not safe. The documentation of `std::uniquelock` in the standard states that it's UB for the mutex do be destroyed while the lock still has a pointer to it. However, there is a way to dissociate the mutex from the lock: calling `release` on the lock. That resets the lock's...
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