I've used some very large scale systems and never seen a required order, but came across it recently. Does the STL or STD library or even Boost have any cases where certain includes must come in a certain order? ...
I recently ran into a problem caused by using fstream::eof(). I read the following line from here: The function eof() returns true if the end of the associated input file has been reached, false otherwise. and (mistakenly) assumed this meant that if I used fstream::read() and read past the end of the file, the function eof() would...
I am writing a number of small, simple applications which share a common structure and need to do some of the same things in the same ways (e.g. logging, database connection setup, environment setup) and I'm looking for some advice in structuring the reusable components. The code is written in a strongly and statically typed language (e....
In C++ you'll see void func(const T& t) everywhere. However, i havent seen anything similar in .NET. Why? I have notice a nice amount of parameters using struct. But i see no functions with readonly/const. In fact now that i tried it i couldnt use those keywords to make a function that promises to not modify a list being passed in. Is t...
I'm building a database library for my application using sqlite3 as the base. I want to structure it like so: db/ __init__.py users.py blah.py etc.py So I would do this in Python: import db db.users.create('username', 'password') I'm suffering analysis paralysis (oh no!) about how to handle the database connect...
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When preparing a library (let's call it libfoo), I find myself presented with the following dilemma: do I write it as a C++ library with a C wrapper: namespace Foo { class Bar { ... }; } /* Separate C header. #ifdef __cplusplus omitted for brevity. */ extern "C" { typedef void *FooBar; FooBar* foo_bar_new() { return new Foo...