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Anon hates C++ (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 days ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If you have a constant expression like 1 + 2 in your code you can evaluate it at compile time once and avoid computing it at runtime. You can do that with control flow and much more complex language constructs in C++. If you want to know more about that look into C++ template meta programming, constexpr, and constval.

[–] timochka@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago

Translation: "We've made the preprocessor a first-class language feature!"

(jk, don't kill me)

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 5 days ago

thank you !