In this article, following a survey of previous suggestions, two techniques for supporting Design by Contract in C++ are outlined. The first technique deals with the need to observe the Liskov ...

From a purely object-oriented perspective, "copy semantics" is the right way to preserve control over object ownership. But in those scenarios where ownership becomes irrelevant, C++11 "move semantics ...

Mention Bjarne Stroustrup’s (Fig. 1) name to programmers, and they think of C++.That’s not surprising since he came up with the object-oriented programming language and continues to be involved in the ...