empty-class – Row Coding

What function does C++ write and call in an empty class?

August 23, 2023 by Tarik

The functions exist, but can be inlined. When the compiler inlines the functions, it realizes they are no-ops, and there is no code generated. What the book is saying, is true to an extent, the notional functions are created by the compiler, for inline and direct calling. But the generated code is empty, so an … Read more

Empty class object in Python

May 30, 2023 by Tarik

A class is more or less a fancy wrapper for a dict of attributes to objects. When you instantiate a class you can assign to its attributes, and those will be stored in foo.__dict__; likewise, you can look in foo.__dict__ for any attributes you have already written. This means you can do some neat dynamic … Read more