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  Introducing the Trompeloeil C++ Mocking framework

  • Björn Fahller

  December 13, 2014•1,219 words

  Trompeloeil is a new mocking framework for C++, aimed at ease of use without sacrificing expressive power. In arts, trompeloeil is intended to mock...

  • cpp
  • testing

• Asserting compilation errors in C++

  • Björn Fahller

  August 28, 2014•554 words

  Sometimes when crafting an interface, we want to ensure that some illegal constructs leads to compilation errors. After all, a good interface is ea...

  • cpp

• strings as types

  • Björn Fahller

  March 31, 2013•1,061 words

  As odd as it may seem, I have more than once felt the need to express a string literal as a unique type which can be used as a any class. As an exa...

  • cpp

• Compile time messages in C++

  • Björn Fahller

  September 28, 2011•983 words

  At times it's desirable to give a message at compile time. Sounds cheezy, eh? Well read on and find out. As an example of the cheezy kind, the comp...

  • cpp
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  Exploring time keeping in ISO C++ 2011

  • Björn Fahller

  September 25, 2011•756 words

  A lot has been written about new features coming in the 2011 revision of ISO C++. One that has received surprisingly little attention is the

  • cpp

• Compile time quick sort using C++ variadic templates

  • Björn Fahller

  September 23, 2011•1,859 words

  Edit June 4th 2015: This article is very dated. Read this revisiting article for a far better solution C++ is a strange language. In many ways it's...

  • cpp