Roger Orr - Making Templates Easier

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Arrive from 18:30 for a 19:00 start.

At the July meeting we will have Roger Orr presenting Making Templates Easier:

Templates have gone from being a 'nice-to-have' feature to a key part of C++ but using them can be difficult in practice.

We will describe some problematic areas and see how things such as "constexpr if" - coming in C++17 - and the Concepts Technical Specification - available in gcc - can make templates easier both to write and to use.
About the speaker:Roger has over 30 years experience in IT, using a variety of languages and platforms, working for a number of different companies over the years. In 1989 he became a contract computer programmer and has successfully managed to remain at the technical end of IT ever since; his recent work has mostly been in C++, on both Windows and Linux.

Roger has been a member of ACCU since 1999; he's on the ACCU committee and Conference committee, the Overload review team and runs the Code Critique section of CVu. He also writes the occasional article for CVu and Overload.

He has represented the UK at C++ ISO standards meetings since 2010.

As with previous recent meetings there will be an in-meeting raffle sponsored by JetBrains who provide us with 1 year single personal use licenses to any one of the JetBrains Toolbox products as a prizes.

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Following the talk we will almost certainly continue chat and discussions over drinks at some local hostelry.