The "&" denotes a reference instead of a pointer to an object (In your case a constant reference). The advantage of having a function such as

Oct 2, 2024 · You can think of the modulus operator as giving you a remainder. count % 6 divides 6 out of count as many times as it can and gives you a remainder from 0 to 5 (These are all …

doesn't it bother that -> is a drill down operator, and thus if overloaded it is not equivalent to member of the derefenced object (*boo).foo ? as if boo->foo may be overloaded to return an …

Jan 21, 2017 · Our code involves a POD (Plain Old Datastructure) struct (it is a basic c++ struct that has other structs and POD variables in it that needs to get initialized in the beginning.) …

The cost of opening a file, discarding all its contents, and closing it over and over might not sound like much, but for a large header included transitively by hundreds of other headers (e.g. …

In the static class, the myGlobal variable is private, but still visible. This is not as important as it seems, but still, in a DLL, showing a symbol that should be private to the DLL in an exported …

The & has more the one meanings:. 1) take the address of a variable. int x; void* p = &x; //p will now point to x, as &x is the address of x

Mar 17, 2011 · :: is the scope resolution operator - used to qualify names. In this case it is used to separate the class AirlineTicket from the constructor AirlineTicket(), forming the qualified name …

Sep 23, 2008 · Cpp Reference is always helpful!!! Details about explicit specifier can be found here. You may need to look at implicit conversions and copy-initialization too. Quick look. The …

Nov 9, 2016 · @NitishPrajapati No, as the "here" link in the answer states, you need to install Windows 10 SDK in addition. "C++ Buildtools" are offered as an optional installer inside …