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Regular Types: From Stepanov to C++ Concepts - Victor Ciura - ACCU 2024
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“Regular” is not exactly a new C++ concept. If we reflect back on STL and its design principles, as best described by Alexander Stepanov in his “Fundamentals of Generic Programming” paper, we see that regular types naturally appear as necessary foundational concepts in programming. Why do we need to bother with such taxonomies? Because STL assumes such properties about the types it deals with and imposes such conceptual requirements for its data structures and algorithms to work properly.

STL vocabulary types such as string_view, span, optional, expected etc., raise new questions regarding values types, whole-part semantics, copies, composite objects, ordering and equality.

Designing and implementing regular types is crucial in everyday programming, not just library design. Properly constraining types and function prototypes will result in intuitive usage; conversely, breaking subtle contracts for functions and algorithms will result in unexpected behavior for the caller.

This talk will explore the relation between Regular types (plus other concepts) and STL constructs, with examples, common pitfalls and guidance.

Slides: https://accu.org/conf-previous/accu2024/
Sponsored By think-cell
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Victor Ciura

Victor Ciura is a Principal Engineer on the Visual C++ team, helping to improve the tools he’s been using for years. Leading engineering efforts across multiple teams working on making Visual Studio the best IDE for C++ Game developers.

Before joining Microsoft, he programmed C++ professionally for 20 years, designing and implementing several core components and libraries of Advanced Installer, improving the virtualization and repackaging technologies for MSI/MSIX.

One of his hobbies is tidying-up and modernizing aging codebases and has been known to build open-source tools that help this process: Clang Power Tools.

He’s a regular guest at Computer Science Department of his Alma Mater, University of Craiova, where he gives student lectures and workshops on using modern C++, STL, algorithms and optimization techniques.

More details: @ciura_victor and https://ciura.ro and linkedin.com/in/victor-ciura
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