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One of the great features of C++ is templates, they are parameterized by alias templates in C++11. Then, In C++14 and C++17, they improved C++11’s feature with a number of template aliases whose use simplifies the traits. This feature is called “Alias Templates For Traits” and in this post, we explain what is and alias template and how we can use alias templates with traits. What is a template In C++ ? A template is a simple and a very powerful statement in C++ which defines the operations of a class or function and lets the user apply the same template on different types in those operations. A template defines the operations of a class, a function, it is an alias. For example, we can create an add(a,b) function template as shown below.   template T add (T a, T b) {   return a+b; }   What is a type alias, and an alias template in C++ 11? Type Alias is a term that refers to a previously defined types, alias declaration can be used to declare a name to use as a synonym for a previously declared type. We use using declaration (using-declaration) to declare a type alias, and it is effectively the same as typedef. This can be in block scope, class scope, or namespace scope. Type alias does not introduce a new type and it cannot change the usage or meaning of an existing type name. A type alias declaration is completely the same as typedef declaration. Type alias can be used to create an alias template that can be used as a custom allocator. Type alias which comes after C++11 standard, is used to create an alias template which can be used as a custom allocator. An alias template is an alias that uses a template which refers to a family of types. For example, let’s create a table template which has type, rows and cols parameters. We can create this table (my_table) template as below,   // A Template Example template class my_table { };   We can use this template to create two more alias templates. Here we create a single column (my_column) and a single row (my_row) templates as below,   // Alias Template Example template using my_column = my_table; template using my_row = my_table;   As you see, we have a my_table template and my_column, my_row templates which are alias templates of the my_table template. These templates can be used to with any data types (int, float, char, string, wstring, etc.). Now we can use all the templates to create a table which has rows and columns or a single row or a single column data in a given type. Here is how we can use them,      my_table  table1;    my_column col1;    my_row row1;   What are the alias templates for traits in C++ 14? In C++17, there are alias templates for type traits, they are defined in header and they can be used by using #include . In C++17, they improved C++11’s TransformationTraits feature with a number of template aliases whose use simplifies the traits. According to N3655 paper, “A TransformationTrait modifies a property of a type. It shall be a class template that takes one template-type argument and, optionally, additional arguments that help define the modification. It shall define a nested type1 named type, which shall be a synonym for the modified type.” In […]

C++17 standard is amazing with a lot of new features, and one of the interesting features was the new type std::any. std::any is a type-safe container to store a single value of any variable type. In this post, we explain std::any in modern C++. What is std::any in C++ 17 ? The any class (std::any) is a new class defined in the  header in C++17 and it is used for any type definition, it is a safe type container for single values that are copy constructible. The std::any is a container type that is used to store any value in it without worrying about the type safety of the variable. It has been designed based on boost::any from the boost library. It is very useful, when you have a variable, and you want to change its type (int to float) on runtime. Here is the simplified syntax for std::any.   std::any ;   Here is a simple definition example. The std::any is a type-safe container that has properties such as has_value(), type(), type().name(); it has modifiers such as emplace, reset, swap; it has bad_any_cast helper class, and it can be used with other methods such as make_any, any_cast, std::swap. How can we use std::any in C++ 17? Here is a simple example how we can use the std::any with different types in C++17 and beyond.   #include   int main() { std::any a;     a = true; // boolean a = 100;  // integer a = 9.81; // double }   In some definitions, we can use literals to define type of the variable, let’s see example below. Is there a full example about how can we use std::any in C++ 17? Here is a full example about std::any that shows different any definitions. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42   #include #include #include #include #include   using namespace std::literals;   int main() { std::any a; std::cout

C++17 is another big milestone in the history of C++, it comes with a lot of new features. In C++17, the fold expressions feature is a powerful feature that allows us to fold a parameter pack over a binary operator. Folding Expressions are very useful with variadic templates, and this feature makes template arguments more readable and concise. There are 4 different types of usage and in this post we will give syntax and simple examples about each of them. What are the fold expressions that comes in C++ 17 features? The fold expressions are established after the C++17 standard, they are used to fold (reduce) a parameter pack (fold_pack) over a binary operator (fold_op). The opening and closing parentheses are required in a fold expression. In a folding expression there are 4 parameters, fold_pack is an expression that has parameter pack and no operator fold_op is a binary operator, one of the + – * / % ^ & | ~ = < > > += -= *= /= %= ^= &= |= = == != = && || , .* ->* operators fold_init is an initial expression at the beginning or at the end … is an ellipses symbol that used for arguments There are 4 different syntax in usage, now let’s see them in examples, Is there a simple example about unary right fold expression? Unary right fold expression syntax (since C++17),   ( fold_pack fold_op … )   here is an unary right fold expression example,   template bool URF(Args … args) { return (args && …);  // Unary Right Fold }   Is there a simple example about unary left fold expression? Unary left fold expression syntax (since C++17).   ( … fold_op fold_pack )   here is an unary left fold expression example,   template bool ULF(Args … args) { return (… && args); // Unary Left Fold }   Is there a simple example about binary right fold expression? Binary right fold expression syntax (since C++17).   ( fold_pack fold_op … fold_op fold_init )   here is a binary right fold expression example,   template int BRF(Args&&… args) { return (args + … + 100); // Binary right fold addition }   Is there a simple example about binary left fold expression? Binary left fold expression syntax (since C++17).   ( fold_init fold_op … fold_op fold_pack )   here is a binary left fold expression example,   template int BLF(Args&&… args) { return (1 * … * args); // Binary left fold multiplication }   Is there a full example about fold expressions in C++ 17? Here is a full example about fold expressions in C++17 that has 4 different types in usage. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41   #include   template bool URF(Args … args) { return (args && …);  // Unary Right Fold }   template bool ULF(Args … args) { return (… && args); // Unary Left Fold }   template int BRF(Args&&… args) { return (args + …+ 100); // Binary Right Fold Addition }   template int BLF(Args&&… args) { return (1 *…* args); // Binary left Fold Multiplication […]

The C++17 standard came with a lot of new features and improvements. One of the features was the math.h library which modernized math operations with the cmath library. The Parallelism Technical Specification adds several new algorithms to the standard C++ library that we can use in C++ Builder 12. These are modernized in the header in the standard library. In this post, we explain the new algorithms that come with C++17. What Are The New Algorithms That Come With C++ 17? C++17 is mostly focused on efficient parallel execution. The new algorithms which support that are available in the usual simple form as well: for_each_n, sample, search, reduce, transform_reduce, exclusive_scan, inclusive_scan, transform_exclusive_scan, transform_inclusive_scan. Now, let’s see some of examples these new algorithms. Iterating ( std::for_each_n ) In C++ 14, we had for_each() to process each element in a given range. In C++17, there is a new std::for_each_n algorithm that executes a function object for each element in the range.    std::for_each_n( first_elemnt, number_of_elements, function)     std::vector vec {47, 12, 3, 9, 5, 21};   for_each_n( vec.begin(), 3,            [](const auto& param)            { std::cout