Born in the analog year of 1973.
Made my first programming experience on a Commodore 64.
Wrote a course-management software while in high-school (1992), which is still in use.
Finished university with a Phd in Maths: math-models for functional languages.
Started C++ in 1999 working on a thermodynamic simulation tool.
Got a large Boost when I stumbled over its libraries.
Frequent BoostCon/C++Now attendant/speaker since then.
Flag-like integer types offer a lot of nice properties: easy to define, e.g. as macros, integer constants or enumerators language support for setting and querying through bitwise operators compact representation in memory simple bulk transfer in interfaces (uint32_t can hold up to 32 options) enforces the usage of names (preventing bool parameters in interfaces) But on the other hand they are inherently type unsafe: values from different flag-types can be combined all types with built-in support for bitwise operators are implicitly convertibility to int built-in bitwise operators return int no distinction on the type level between flag-values and their bitwise […]