Welcome to the Cow Corporation's series of videos about software engineering. The topic of this video is compile-time assertions in C++.
Prerequisite Knowledge:
Table of Contents (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFvHtpPPV_k)
Desktop Apps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NO4APs4Io8)
Desktop Apps→C++ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwIlsb9wqs)
Previous Video in this Series:
Desktop Apps→C++→Preprocessing→Compile-time Constants (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVaMdsXMvvA)
Example Source Code:
Preprocessor assertion (https://wandbox.org/permlink/f38K6mdyAI93R8H1)
Compile-time assertion (https://wandbox.org/permlink/EZjX8HdgHa4gaG9X)
Assertion in a templated class (https://wandbox.org/permlink/MOOa5u39Nh0Aoxx4)
Next Video in this Series:
Desktop Apps→C++→Preprocessing→Conditional Compilation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFHEscbGRcY)
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0:00 Intro
0:24 Video
3:35 Outro
