Description

This book has become and will remain the 'bible' on templates. It provides the most complete and accurate information on using templates in C++. It is a complete reference as well as a tutorial. It includes real-world examples.

Features

• Updated to include the new C++0x features and rules
• Previous coverage revised to reflect newer ideas
• Added coverage of modern topics, such as lambdas, inline namespaces, user-defined literals, as tied to template applications
• Qualities most praised in the 1e are maintained: includes lots of small, illustrative examples; explains lots of details not available elsewhere (and yet have to be dealt with all the time); explains related non-template issues that are also unavailable elsewhere

New to this Edition

This edition fully aligns with the new C++0x standard, and explains the implications for template usage associated with key C++ advances such as lambdas, inline namespaces, and user-defined literals.

Table of Contents

• Part I: The Basics
• Chapter 1: Function Templates
• Chapter 2: Class Templates
• Chapter 3: Nontype Template Parameters
• Chapter 4: Variadic Templates
• Chapter 5: Tricky Basics
• Chapter 6: Move Semantics and enable_if<>
• Chapter 7: By-Value or By-Reference?
• Chapter 8: Compile-Time Programming
• Chapter 9: Using Templates in Practice
• Chapter 10: Basic Template Terminology
• Chapter 11: Generic Libraries
• Part II: Templates in Depth
• Chapter 12: Fundamentals in Depth
• Chapter 13: Names in Templates
• Chapter 14: Instantiation
• Chapter 15: Template Argument Deduction
• Chapter 16: Specialization and Overloading
• Chapter 17: Future Directions
• Part III: Templates and Design
• Chapter 18: The Polymorphic Power of Templates
• Chapter 19: Implementing Traits
• Chapter 20: Overloading on Type Properties
• Chapter 21: Templates and Inheritance
• Chapter 22: Bridging and Static and Dynamic Polymorphism
• Chapter 23: Metaprograms
• Chapter 24: Typelists
• Chapter 25: Tuples
• Chapter 26: Discriminated Unions
• Chapter 27: Expression Templates
• Chapter 28: Debugging Templates
• Appendixes
• Appendix A: The One-Definition Rule
• Appendix B: Value Categories
• Appendix C: Overload Resolution
• Appendix D: Standard Type and Meta Utilities
• Appendix E: Concepts
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Index
   
   

 

Author

David Vandevoorde started programming C++ in the late 1980s. After obtaining a PhD from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he became technical lead of Hewlett-Packard’s C++ compiler team. In 1999 he joined the Edison Design Group (EDG), whose C++ compiler technology is widely recognized as the industry’s most advanced. He is an active member of the C++ Standard Committee and a moderator of the newsgroup comp.lang.c++.moderated (which he co-founded). He is the author of C++ Solutions, the companion to The C++ Programming Language, 3rd Edition.

 

Nicolai M. Josuttis is well known for his best-selling de-facto standard bookThe C++ Standard Library - A Tutorial and Reference. He is an independent technical consultant who designs object-oriented software for the telecommunications, traffic, finance, and manufacturing industries. He is an active member of the C++ Standard Committee and a partner at System Bauhaus, a German group of prominent object-oriented system development experts. Josuttis has written several other books on object-oriented programming and C++.

 

Douglas Gregor is Senior Swift/C++/Objective-C Compiler Engineer at Apple. He holds a PhD in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and did post-doctoral work at Indiana University.