Of course if you don't know who Alexandrescu is, here is a C++ fantasy map that was circulated a few years back (it is funnier if know C++) and well, Alexandrescu has his own castle there:
I heard that there's also a diamond mine somewhere in the multiple inheritance forest, but all pointers to its exact location seem to be off a bit :)
Indeed, look West, there is a diamond mine. By the Virtual Inheritance Mountains, which are North of the Inheritance Forest. The location makes sense, because virtual inheritance helps solve the "diamond" problem. (I am not a good C++ programmer, so if this is wrong, please correct me).
That's for explaining the joke so laboriously and with so little wit
"concepts shipwreck"
it makes me sad :(
Just curious, what happened with concepts? I have a moderate amount of C++ knowledge, and have heard of concepts, but nothing more.
They couldn't make it into the official C++11 standard. Seems like the standards committee still wants to add them, but it's not clear when that would happen.
Concepts lite has already passed the vote for for C++17.
Awesome, I didn't know that!
And just over there in the ocean is his ship, Loki.
"STL" inside the holy standard lands! I protest! The standard recognises no such thing as "STL"! It is simply the standard libary. The STL is the library that <strike>Alexandrescu</strike> Stepanov wrote that precedes the C++ stdlib.
Alexander Stepanov wrote it.
It's location has meaning - it's right on the edge of the known lands.