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58: C++ Templates. Types And Values.

Feb 18, 201612 min
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Episode description

Both C++ templates and C# generics serve a similar purpose. But where C# uses constraints to enable generics, C++ instead uses the compiler to enable templates. And C++ includes the ability to create templates base on values which will enable you to do things unheard of in C#. Most C# developers do not even know what they are missing.
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