It is a strong current trend among languages to become more functional. No, not as "actually doing stuff" but in the mathematical sense of the word. I.e., languages more and more treat functions as any other value, and C# is no exception. Before you know it, we might have the expressivity of Lisp anno 1965 [...]
Would you like to generate a hierarchy of types on the fly using C++? Well, at least on-the-compilation-fly…
You could always use Andrei’s magnificent Loki library, or you could use my proposal, gen_hierarchy.
In short, I allow for two distinct types of hierarchies:
Spine-like, with the given types protruding as maximal elements on that spine.
A “simple” chain.
Let us [...]
Are you not tired of writing those boring for loops, repeating virtually the same boiler plate “finder” or “accumulator” code over and over again? Are you also too afraid of those academic languages or simply enjoy actually getting paid for what you do, i.e., you are confined to Java?
Well, I assume there are tons of [...]