Template deduction in C++ is like generic type parameter deduction in C#: it allows us to omit template arguments. Template specialization has no C# equivalent, but enables special-casing of templates based on certain arguments. Today we’ll look at how these features can make our code a lot less noisy and also a lot more efficient.
Posts Tagged arguments
I’ve talked about var args, the arguments keyword, and even the length of a function that has default arguments, but I’ve never written an article all about default arguments… until today.
In my last article on getProperties, there was one strange finding in the tests of standard classes: the Function class seems to have a length field. What is it? Today we’ll see
While I was working on last week’s article it became apparent that something strange was going on with the arguments keyword in AS3. Last week I showed that even after you’ve changed the parameters of a function, you can still get the original values by indexing into arguments. This implies a copy and a copy implies a slowdown. Read on to see if there really is a slowdown and, if there is, what kind of performance impact there is.
I am often burned by MXMLC: the AS3 compiler. When I am, I find this infuriating and look for the reason why this happened. Today I’ll tip you off about this problem and delve into what it means if you happen to trigger it.
As a followup to last week’s article on curry functions, today’s is about the reverse of currying.
Scoping is pretty weird in AS3 for those coming from C/C++ and Java. There are two cases in particular you should know about.