C++ Tricks

C++ is one hell of a programming language (for better or worse). This is a collection of C++ programming tricks that are useful, interesting, or just plain crazy:

• Detecting in C++ whether a type is defined (Raymond Chen)
  • Part 1: The initial plunge
  • Part 2: Giving it a special name
  • Part 3: SFINAE and incomplete types
  • Part 4: Predeclaring things you want to probe
  • Part 5: Augmenting the basic pattern