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Understanding the role of cv-qualifiers in function parameters

In today's post, I will continue where I left off with last month's post C++ top-level qualifiers explained. This time, I will focus on function parameters. [...]
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Level Up Your C++ Skills: Essential Tools and Resources for Effective Practice

Today, I want to share my C++ resources page with you: andreasfertig.com/cpp-resources/. [...]
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C++ top-level qualifiers explained

In today's post, I would like to address the question, "What is a top-level cv-qualifier, and why is it important to understand?". [...]
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Aggregates: C++17 vs. C++20

Sometimes the small changes between two C++ standards really bite you. Today's post is about when I got bitten by a change to aggregates in C++20. [...]
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C++20 Concepts applied - Safe bitmasks using scoped enums

In 2020 I wrote an article for the German magazine iX called Scoped enums in C++. In that article, I shared an approach of using class enums as bitfields without the hassle of [...]
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When an empty destructor is required

In last month's post Why you shouldn't provide an empty destructor, I taught you the difference between user-provided and user-declared. I hope you remember the conclusion; never [...]
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Why you shouldn't provide an empty destructor

Today's post is a written version of C++ Insights episode 38 I published back in May. I decided to write this post to be able to use what I teach you in next month's post. In case [...]
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Using C++23s constexpr unique_ptr

Back in 2022, my paper P2273R3: Making std::unique_ptr constexpr was accepted for C++23. All the time, I planned to provide an implementation for libc++ but never found the time. [...]
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Best Speaker Award

I'm very pleased to tell you that I received a Best Speaker Award from a German conference ESE Kongress for my talk "C++ 20 Templates - Die nächste Generation" I presented there [...]
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Control your numbers in C++

Today's post is probably easier and shorter than usual. But that doesn't mean the feature is any less powerful. [...]