Ian Beauregard

Jun 12, 2021

Emulating SQLite with vanilla Python

Challenges and important choices — In an ideal world, when attempting to get something done, our brain should remain at the same level of abstraction as the task at hand. As the saying goes, there is no need to reinvent the wheel, or to unmount a wheel and study its functioning: simply get yourself a…

Sqlite

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Sqlite

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Apr 6, 2021

My Quest to Mix OOP and C

Using the dot notation and information hiding — Part II of II (Read part I here.) Contents Step 4: Function pointers Step 5: Recovering complete information hiding Step 6: Syntactic sugar for the constructor The whole picture Final words In the first part of this article, we used an IntStack type to demonstrate how we could introduce the dot notation in C, while…

Dot Notation

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Dot Notation

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Apr 4, 2021

My Quest to Mix OOP and C

Using the dot notation and information hiding — Part I of II (Read part II here.) Contents Step 0: Total transparency; no reuse potential Step 1: Forward declarations Step 2: Header files Step 3: Perfect information hiding A colleague recently told me that C was akin to camping. …

Dot Notation

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Dot Notation

5 min read