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Reed Milewicz | Zendy; Marjan Mernik | Zendy; Peter Pirkelbauer | Zendy

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SimpleConcepts: A lightweight extension to C++ to support constraints on generic types

Author(s) -

Reed Milewicz,

Marjan Mernik,

Peter Pirkelbauer

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

computer science and information systems

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.244

H-Index - 24

eISSN - 2406-1018

pISSN - 1820-0214

DOI - 10.2298/csis131209053m

Subject(s) - computer science , programming language , parsing , extension (predicate logic) , template , generic programming , source code , process (computing) , code (set theory) , software engineering , set (abstract data type)

Generic programming plays an essential role in C++ software through the use of templates. However, both the creation and use of template libraries is hindered by the fact that the language does not allow programmers to specify constraints on generic types. To date, no proposal to update the language to provide concepts has survived the committee process. Until that time comes, as a form of early support, this paper introduces SimpleConcepts, an extension to C++11 that provides support for concepts, sets of constraints on generic types. SimpleConcepts features are parsed according to an island grammar and source-to-source translation is used to lower concepts to pure C++11 code

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