Monthly Archives: February 2015

C++11: Implementation of list comprehension in SQL-like form

list comprehension

List comprehension in functional languages is the name of list constructor syntax, which is similar to set-builder notation from math.

What are the benefits of using list comprehension? One is readability, and the other one is the fact of decoupling iteration from actual construction. We could even hide parallel execution under the hood of list comprehension. Also by adding additional options to such declaration we could make the list construction a lot shorter.

If we look closer at list comprehension’s syntax, it will remind of one another very familiar thing – SQL select! Output expression, input set, predicates are equivalent to select, from, where sequence (of course not exactly, but they are very alike). Ok, let’s implement such syntax sugar using C++11 (without boost and LINQ-like libs).

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C++11 functional decomposition – easy way to do AOP

This post is about making functional decomposition from perspective of Aspect Oriented Programming using C++11. If you are not familiar with ideas of AOP don’t be afraid – it’s rather simple concept, and by the end of this post you will understand the benefits of it.

You also can treat this post just as example how to use high-order functions in C++11.

In short – AOP tries to perform decomposition of every business function into orthogonal parts called aspects such as security, logging, error handling, etc. The separation of crosscutting concerns. It looks like:
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