Good C++ practices

[Little Bobby Tables]

there are no small letters in my post. they are only small if you make them small.

[giblit]

Nathan and Bobby you should stop arguing over grammar. You are getting way off topic on yet another thread. Let me put this back on topic:
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/lounge/127166/#msg688151

There is also a WIP faq for this site that could come in handy.
http://www.cplusplus.com/faq/

[Little Bobby Tables]

yeah im sorry. also there is the webkit one.
http://www.webkit.org/coding/coding-style.html

[Stormboy]

Is it just me or is there "Under construction" written over here: http://www.cplusplus.com/faq/style/

[TwilightSpectre]

Yes, the FAQ on this site is still under active development (and from the look of things, probably won't be ready for a while).

[giblit]

As I mentioned it is a work in progress(WIP).

[iAk3T05o]

It looks good although i don't understand the code under "strings & arrays". I believe it will be sorted out when it's done. A good reference.

[Stormboy]

@ Nathan2222: The code is very clear and understandable. What part do you not understand?

[iAk3T05o]

I can't seem to find it. It had a lot of

bool::

[Little Bobby Tables]

are you sure? i just did ctrl+f for just bool and it found nothing. also i dont think you can legally do bool::anything in c++. although, i would appreciate it if one of the more knowledgable members backed me up or corrected me on this

[iAk3T05o]

I've still not found it.
@little bobby: i hope i find it to confirm. :(

[Stormboy]

@ Bobby: bool is a datatype. It is neither a class nor a namespace. So you cannot do bool::something and get away with it ;).

[BHX]

Stormboy is right, bool is a datatype. There is no part of this site (outside of his post and your reply) that has bool:: in it.

[iAk3T05o]

I've found it :). It's under strings & arrays, under that, you'll find comparing strings without case sensitivity and you'll see the codes. I was confusing things because bool was the datatype of that thing.
It was boost:: i was seeing.

[Stormboy]

boost is a library. You use boost:: to access something in the boost namespace.

[Little Bobby Tables]

bool is a datatype. It is neither a class nor a namespace. So you cannot do bool::something and get away with it ;).

thats what i was saying. i didnt think you could but im no expert, so i just wanted to make sure.

You use boost:: to access something in the boost namespace

except, for whatever reason, when its not in actual code they refer to a library as boost.name, for example boost.any

[BHX]

If they are doing boost.any that means boost is a class/struct object accessing a member.

struct someName{
         std::string name;
};

someName boost;
boost.name;

For the boost library it uses boost:: due to it being the namespace for the library. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean by boost.any.

[Little Bobby Tables]

yes you are. if they arent referencing actual code, they do it like this:
to do such and such, you would use boost.foo to do that.

[Stormboy]

@ Little Bobby Tables:
Where do they refer it to as boost.something? In their documentation?

[Little Bobby Tables]

im sorry... im wrong. i just went to check, and i couldnt find them doing that except in the <title> tag. i must be thinking of another library