Comment on “Problem 11”
Description :

The first step here in finding problems in the code is to identify the problem the code is trying to solve. The discussion in the C Vu article is basically about curiosities in the way in which the C++ standard library std::istream is defined, but I will make the perhaps unwarranted assumption that what the problem the code is really about is not the uses of std::istream, but rather, more generally, how to write a read routine that can effectively and safely capture data from an input stream. Actually as the first problem below illustrates neither of these issues can be effectively addressed without the other.

Category: [ Programming Topics | CVu Journal Vol 16, #1 - Feb 2004 ]

Student Code Critique Competition 26
Description : This item is part of the Dialogue section of C Vu, which is intended to designate it as an item where reader interaction is particularly important. Readers’ comments and criticisms of published entries are always welcome.
Category: [ Programming Topics | CVu Journal Vol 16, #1 - Feb 2004 | Student Code Critiques from CVu journal. ]

Maintaining Context for Exceptions (Alternative)

Category: [ Programming Topics | CVu Journal Vol 15, #6 - Dec 2003 ]

BRACKETS OFF!

Category: [ Programming Topics | CVu Journal Vol 15, #6 - Dec 2003 ]

From Mechanism to Method:

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #58 - Dec 2003 ]

Choosing Template Parameters

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #58 - Dec 2003 ]

CheckedInt: A Policy-Based Range-Checked Integer

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #58 - Dec 2003 ]

A More Flexible Container

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #58 - Dec 2003 ]

Copy on Write

Category: [ Programming Topics | CVu Journal Vol 15, #5 - Oct 2003 ]

Combining the STL with SAX and XPath for Effective XML Parsing

Category: [ Programming Topics | CVu Journal Vol 15, #5 - Oct 2003 ]

Statically Checking Exception Specifications

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #57 - Oct 2003 ]

Software As Read

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #57 - Oct 2003 ]

Single Exit

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #57 - Oct 2003 ]

Error and Exception Handling

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #57 - Oct 2003 ]

Chaos Theory

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #57 - Oct 2003 ]

A Policy-Driven CORBA Template Library to Facilitate the Rapid Development of DOC Middleware

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #57 - Oct 2003 ]

Mixing Strings in C++
Description :

This article is not going into the realm of how characters are represented and conversions between character representations, instead the interaction between different string implementations are investigated.

Category: [ Programming Topics | CVu Journal Vol 15, #4 - Aug 2003 ]

Maintaining Context for Exceptions

Category: [ Programming Topics | CVu Journal Vol 15, #4 - Aug 2003 ]

A Polygon Seed Fill Algorithm

Category: [ Programming Topics | CVu Journal Vol 15, #4 - Aug 2003 ]

Quick Guide to MinGW (GCC for Windows)

Category: [ Programming Topics | CVu Journal Vol 15, #3 - Jun 2003 ]