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Overload 184 · December 2024 (PDF)

Contents

• Counting Quails.
  We are taught to count as children. Frances Buontempo wonders: how hard can it be?

• User Stories and BDD – Part 4, Features Are Not Stories.
  Features and stories serve different purposes in software delivery. Seb Rose finishes off his BDD series by encouraging us to be mindful of the difference.

• Static Reflection in C++.
  Static reflection is under consideration for C++26. Wu Yongwei demonstrates how to achieve reflection now and shows some examples of what C++26 might make possible.

• Senders/Receivers: An Introduction.
  C++26 will introduce a new concurrency feature called std::execution, or senders/receivers. Lucian Radu Teodorescu explains the idea and how to use these in detail.

• Replacing ‘bool’ Values.
  Booleans seem simple to use. Spencer Collyer considers when they can actually cause a world of pain.

• Afterwood.
  Bar. Hmmmm. Bug?! Chris Oldwood gives software development a seasonal twist.