Not so long ago, I posted a programming challenge , and received solutions in many different languages. Just when I thought people had forgot about this, I got this one from Anton Triest . It was written in a programming language called ... (surprise...

After programming in C++ for a while, you will inevitably be introduced to the concept of “smart pointers” (or you will discover them on your own). These are pointers that know to automatically release the objects they point to when they ...

We all know that C++ templates can be used to write generic code, e.g. template <typename T> class Array { … }; Then we can use the same template to generate code for different template parameters. This is called instantiation...

I don't know about you, but the C++ syntax for member function pointers always eludes me. Every time I would spend half an hour or more deciphering MSDN to get the exact syntax, only to completely forget it the next time. Oops. I can think of three...

The question is simple: given a C++ array (e.g. x as in int x[10] ), how would you get the number of elements in it? An obvious solution is the following macro ( definition 1 ): #define countof( array ) ( sizeof ( array )/ sizeof ( array...