Monthly Archives: June 2012

Inheritance is an interesting object-oriented programming concept. It allows one class (the sub-class) to be based upon another (the super-class) and inherit all of its functionality automatically. Additional code may then be added to create a more specialized version of the class. In the example of vehicles, sub-classes for cars or motorcycles could be created. Each would still have all of the behavior of a vehicle but can add specialized methods and properties, such as ‘Lean()’ and ‘LeanAngle’ for motorcycles. Some programming languages allow for multiple inheritance where a sub-class is derived from two or more super-classes. C# does not … Click here to continue reading. →

Templates allow to create generic functions that admit any data type as parameters and return value without having to overload the function with all the possible data types. Until certain point they fulfill the functionality of a macro. Its prototype is any of the two following ones: template function_declaration; template function_declaration; The only difference between both prototypes is the use of keyword class or typename, its use is indistinct since both expressions have exactly the same meaning and behave exactly the same way.