Value Oriented Programming Part 1: You Say You Want to Write a Function - Tony Van Eerd CppNow 2023

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Value Oriented Programming. Part 1: You Say You Want to Write a Function - Tony Van Eerd - CppNow 2023
Slides: https://github.com/boostcon
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At the first BoostCon (2007), Sean Parent gave the Best. Keynote. Ever. Introducing many to Value Semantics. Some (who are probably reading this) said it fundamentally changed how they code. During the questions at the end, Dave Abrahams asked "how do we teach this".

Here is the start of my answer:
Aaahhh!
You say you want to write a function
Well, you know
We all want to change the code
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the code
But when you talk about member functions
Don't you know that you can count me out?
Don't you know it's gonna be
All right
All right
All right

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We all doing what we can
But if you want money for params with all that state
All I can tell you is, developer, you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be
All right
All right
All right

You say you'll change the param direction
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the common solution
Well, you know
You'd better free your mind instead
But if you are still writing functions that return void now
You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know it's gonna be
All right
All right
All right

All right, all right, all right
All right, all right, all right
All right, all right
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Tony Van Eerd

Tony has been coding for well over 25 years, and hopefully coding well for most of that. Previously at Inscriber, Adobe, and BlackBerry, he now enables painting with light at Christie Digital. He is on the C++ Committee. He is a Ninja and a Jedi.
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