Naming Things: Implementer vs. User Names

I wanted to write this blog post about (a specific part of) naming things back in July, but ironically I didn’t have a name for the symptom I wanted to describe. I only found a good name when I attended Kate Gregory’s talk on naming at CppCon, and now I finally have the time to write my thoughts down.

So I want to write about naming. In particular, about the phenomenon that sometimes a name is a perfect description of what a function does, yet it is totally useless.

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Jonathan

Tutorial: When to Write Which Special Member

When explaining someone the rules behind the special member functions and when you need to write which one, there is this diagram that is always brought up. I don’t think the diagram is particularly useful for that, however.

It covers way more combinations than actually make sense. So let’s talk about what you actually need to know about the special member functions and when you should write which combination.

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Jonathan