Continuing the coverage of C++ classes, this month I'll look at copy and move semantics. Consider the following code: T t1, t2; // objects t1 and t2 live in the stack t2 = t1; // t1 is copied to t2 ...

Given a T class, a copy constructor is implicitly available. By default, it constructs an object whose members are identical to those of the received argument. You can explicitly redefine this ...

Review: C++ covered in class XI, Object Oriented Programming: Concept of Object Oriented Programming – Data hiding, Data encapsulation, Class and Object, Abstract class and Concrete class ...

The language itself will turn 40 years old this year, having debuted as C with Classes in fall 1979. The name was changed to C++ in 1984. Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld. Paul has been ...