I encountered some trouble today printing PostScript files from ROOT at smaller sizes. This is most useful to me because my lab notebook, heretically, is smaller than ‘letter’ size, which I find more convenient for carrying than the huge squared notebooks which seem to be the norm around here. I was looking for a quick way of printing PostScript at 80% scale.
Month: May 2007
This is another gotcha from my recent C++ work. When I learned C++ I was taught to put the interface (function declarations) in a header file and the implentation (function definitions) in a .cpp module source file. Some small functions could be written inline in the class declarations, usually just get/set member functions for private data. At one point (or possibly just in C) having if/else statements in a header was not allowed, the compiler complained about branching. I recently realized (about 10 years after everyone else, it seems) that there is actually a very good reason to put implementation of templated functions in the header file.
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Mixing Inheritance and Templates in C++
I came across a gotcha today with some C++ code I’m working on. I have an abstract base class for doing interpolation, and when I tried converting it to a template class it stopped working – specifically the derived class could no longer access certain members of the base class.