[Pl-seminar] 3/10 Seminar: Jimmy Hartzell, Templates and Types in C++

[Daniel Patterson]

Reminder - this is next week!

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 2:56 PM Daniel Patterson <dbp at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> NUPRL Seminar presents
>
> Jimmy Hartzell
> Tower Research
> Host: Ben Greenman
>
> 12:00-1:30
> Friday, Mar 10, 2017
> Room 366 WVH (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/directions.html)
>
> Templates and Types in C++
>
> Abstract:
>
> Like many modern programming languages, C++ supports both generic
> programming (templates) and object-oriented programming (inheritance and
> virtual functions). Unlike many modern programming languages, the generic
> programming mechanism does not fully leverage or interact with the type
> system. It amounts to compile-time duck typing: C++ function templates,
> like functions from a non-statically typed programming language, have their
> full interface implicit in their implementations -- making it hard to
> discern what that interface actually is. The concept of Concepts
> (compile-time typeclasses) was slated for introduction into C++ in the
> C++11 version of the standard, then C++14, then C++17, now C++20... What
> can we do to work around their absence?
>
> Relatedly, how do we bridge the gap between static and dynamic
> polymorphism? C++ provides both, and sometimes we want to mix and mash
> them. Template tricks can also be done to accomplish this as well.
>
> Bio
>
> Jimmy Hartzell is a software developer and C++ instructor at Tower
> Research.
>
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