I briefly explore an odd case of misbehaviour from clang.
Right or wrong, it's still trendy in some C++ circles to use the singleton pattern for defining a type that can only be instantiated at most once in an execution run. However, this can cause problems when you bring more static data into the mix.
I ask everyone to stop using the erroneous term "STL".
One of the evilnesses of the C++ Standard Library is that implementations — be they GCC's libstdc++ or the Dimkumware implementation used by MSVC — are free to have their headers include other standard headers as much as they like. This can lead to confusion.
I briefly explore a common inheritance gotcha and its usual solution.
A programmer friend recently revealed that his company has a strict no-tabs policy, and that they are forced to use space indentation… at no fewer than eight spaces. This makes me sad. I explain why.
I address the age-old debate of C and C++; which pointer initialisation syntax to use?
I compare several approaches to object initialisation in C++.
I explore a few oddities with templates and types in C++.
Why does C++ not allow conversion from `T**` to `T const**`?
