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... I think the perl code actually compiles (err, runs) though. :-)

I used arch around 2008 or so, then distro-hopped to Slackware, when I remain to this day. Some of us escape.

They actually ship three different cans - one for each firewall in the base install.

You're right. Lambdas in C++ are syntactic sugar over something the core language has allowed you to do since before C++98. Since you control which variables you capture into the c…

Internally, lambdas are structs with the "function call" operator overload. Context is done via members of the struct: capture by-value, and the struct copies them and stores its o…

I still use it on my primary desktop computer at home. It's a great, stable system that just keeps on running and doing what it needs to do.

Slackware. I use the Plasma5 packages maintained by Eric Hameleers, and it's a wonderful experience.

We use Delphi for some of our older applications (everything new is migrating to either C++17 or Go). I remember upgrading the IDE (forget which version, but it was about 3 years a…

Lock guard has no default constructor, so the line will in fact materialize a temporary lock guard around the mutex m, then throw it away at the semi-colon, thus locking nothing.

You can add a literal operator: auto operator "" _r(char const* str, unsigned long) { return std::regex{str}; } To avoid all the backslashes, you can use a raw string literal: int …

Concrete example: void foo(const int* const p1, int* const p2) { int a = *p1; *p2 += 42; int b = *p1; return a == b; // b = a + 42 } int main() { int x = 0; return foo(&x, &x); }

You're right, but what I meant about it was that just because the variable is const, doesn't mean it can't change from somewhere else between reads. Even if you use synchronization…

If the initial object itself isn't const, then merely declaring the function parameter as a pointer to const won't guarantee that some other thread of execution won't change the va…

readonly was the original proposed name, if I remember my D&E [0] correctly. Bjarne outlined in that book why he went with const instead, but I forget why off the top of my head. I…

The examples in the articles are non-constant pointers to constant data. If you want to declare the pointer itself const, you need to do it after the asterisk. const int* const ins…

Lufia 2 is one of my absolute favourite SNES-era RPG's. I try to replay it every few years.

But in languages that support multiple dispatch at the language level, they're just another way of writing polymorphic functions. They're not just a niche feature. When you don't h…

Why have functions and control structures when we can just jmp?

Very cool. There should be an arrow from Simula to C++ though, as that's where C++ got its object oriented features from.

The dialect of object orientation that Delphi compiles is different than object pascal. It's pretty safe to call Delphi a language.

Boost came about from a few members of the ISO C++ committee as a way to iterate on library features. It would be a shame if none of that work made it's way back into the standard.…

I love the Graham scan algorithm for computing convex hulls of sets of points. That and the fast exponentiation algorithm, which can be used to compute linear recurrences (e.g. fib…

Knuth defines effectiveness as: "... all of the operations to be performed in the algorithm must be sufficiently basic that they can in principle be done exactly and in a finite le…

a % b is a way to do it in fewer iterations than a - b.