Articles by Christopher Diggins (Articles: 16)

Finding the size of the file in C++ in a portable manner is not trivial!

A technique for automated delegation and dynamic inheritance.

The OOTL uses a technique of allowing run-time polymorphism on objects, without requiring them to plan for it.

This article explains the techniques used to allow the interface reference types to be polymorphic on any type which provides matching function signatures.

An introduction to the OOTL (Object Oriented Template Library). Describes how the OOTL uses a bleeding-edge technique of defining interface types in C++ to provide lightweight object-oriented primitives with run-time polymorphism through an IObject interface.

By writing programs as objects, it can be easy to reuse programs, and redirect them to one another.

A high-performance alternative to boost::any.

A trivial way to pipe the cout from one function to the cin of another.

Template specializations can be used as call-backs instead of functors or function pointers to create an event-driven framework.

Shows how to build a simple event based Windows GUI framework using template function specializations.

An introduction to creating programming language tools using C# 4.0.

A tokenizer using the YARD parser which can recognize regular expressions.

Provides a set of tools for building XML parsers in C++ using the YARD recursive descent parser.

This article contains the public domain implementation of an interpreter for a statically typed stack-based programming language in C# called Cat. The accompanying article is a high-level description of how the various modules work, a brief description of the language, and links to related work.

A union list is a simple union style type which can hold one value of any of a fixed number of types.

I provide an implementation of fast-growing indexable stacks which outperforms std::vector and std::deque.