The use of objects in SystemC is a powerful means of creating abstraction by extension. Encapsulation shows the power of this concept. This article explains how modular interfaces can be a very ...

C++ can deliver real benefits specifically for the implementation of embedded software, particularly when the concept of “encapsulation of expertise” is used. By employing this technique to take ...

.NET and Java developers are perplexed about the indiscreet way C++ discloses private class details. Pimpl (pointer-to-implementation) solves this problem by keeping secrets hidden from peepers. I ...

Words are slippery. Like Humpty Dumpty proclaimed in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” Certainly the ...