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Biggest Changes In C++11 (and Why You Should Care)

Posted by timothy on from the it-serves-as-its-own-emoticon dept.

Esther Schindler writes "It's been 13 years since the first iteration of the C++ language. Danny Kalev, a former member of the C++ standards committee, explains how the programming language has been improved and how it can help you write better code."

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  1. Nice but... by genjix · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Would love to use these features in the new C++, but unfortunately none of the major compilers support the new for-syntax, in class initialization, deleting members and explicit specification of base class methods.

    Also I totally don't understand why enum class no longer casts to ints... it totally makes using binary flags impossible unless I revert back to using the old style enums. But then I need to do the ugly namespace myenums { enum myenum { foo = 4, bar = 8 ... }; } hack which makes nesting inside classes impossible -_-

    1. Re:Nice but... by JohnnyBGod · · Score: 3, Interesting

      What so wrong with "const int SOME_BINARY_FLAG = 0xff00ff"?

  2. Re:Still playing catch-up to C#. by rennerik · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Your comment caught some flack, but I couldn't help but make a similar observation as I read the spec. It seems that they are adding a lot of stuff to C++ that exists in C# (lambda expressions, delegated constructors, automatic deduction, initialization syntax, a dedicated null keyword, etc).

    Of course, they added a bunch of stuff that's also NOT in C# (since it's not necessary in a high-level language like C#), but I am glad that they are revamping C++ to incorporate some higher-level functions. Now we just have to wait for compilers to start adopting the new spec...