James McNellis

Redmond, WA

Age: 27

I'm a C++ and generic programming aficionado, and the 2⁵th legendary Stack Overflow contributor.

I work at Microsoft, where I am a developer on the Visual C++ team. In my spare time, I'm working on the Boost-licensed CxxReflect native reflection implementation for the Windows Runtime.

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What are rvalues, lvalues, xvalues, glvalues, and prvalues?

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How can I reliably get the address of an object?

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75 votes

Add warning when changing display name

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29 votes

Why is std::function not equality comparable?

c++ function boost c++11 tr1 asked Sep 2 '10 at 18:01

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18 votes

In the declaration “std::vector<X> f();”, is “std::vector<X>” an instantiation?

c++ templates asked Oct 11 '11 at 18:42

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14 votes

Overload resolution and arrays: which function should be called?

c++ arrays reference c++11 overload-resolution asked Mar 18 '11 at 2:33

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Where in a declaration may a storage class specifier be placed?

c++ declaration storage-class-specifier asked Oct 25 '12 at 17:24

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14 votes

Remove the [ansi-c] tag

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13 votes

How can I extend a lexical cast to support enumerated types?

c++ serialization enums casting lexical-cast asked Oct 6 '09 at 22:10

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13 votes

Why does the “Real Name” field not appear on the user profile page?

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