What Do We Mean When We Say Nothing At All?

This talk examines how deliberate omissions in C++ code can communicate design intent, and how to make that meaning clearer to readers. Examples include omitted keywords and punctuation, pointer ownership, and initialization.

Syllabus

Intro
Writing Code is a form of Communication
Reading Code
Well Written Code
Roger Orr's Favourite Code Snippet
Let's talk about these...
Maybe Unused, No Discard
How Do You Disambiguate?
Is A Raw Pointer Always A Non-owning Pointer?
What Does & Mean? *?
Is A Traditional for Loop Always Doing Something Odd?
Initializing
Communicate
What is Not in Your Code?
Nothingness