C++ Templates : The Complete Guide - Gegor Douglas

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Résumé :
Templates are among the most powerful features of C++, but they remain misunderstood and underutilized, even as the C++ language and development community have advanced. In C++ Templates, Second Edition, three pioneering C++ experts show why, when, and how to use modern templates to build software that's cleaner, faster, mom efficient, and easier to maintain. Now extensively updated for the C++11, C++14, and C++17 standards, this new edition presents state-of-the-art techniques fora wider spectrum of applications. The authors provide authoritative explanations of all new language features that either improve templates or interact with them, including variadic templates, generic lambdas, class template argument deduction, compile-time if, forwarding references, and user-defined literals. They also deeply delve into fundamental language concepts (like value categories) and fully cover all standard type traits. The book starts with an insightful tutorial on basic concepts and relevant language features. The remainder of the hook serves as a comprehensive reference, focusing first on language details and then on coding techniques, advanced applications, and sophisticated idioms. Throughout, examples clearly illustrate abstract concepts and demonstrate best practices for exploiting all that C++ templates can do. Understand exactly how templates behave, and avoid common pitfalls. Use templates to write more efficient, flexible, and maintainable software. Reuse source code without compromising performance or safety. Benefit from utilities for generic programming in the C++ Standard Library. Master today's most effective idioms and techniques. Preview the upcoming concepts feature.

Biographie:
David Vandevoorde, vice president of engineering at Edison Design Group. Inc.. architects key features of the company's C++ compiler. A co-founder of the renowned comp.lang.c++.moderated forum, he is also active in C++ standardization. He holds a PhD and MSc in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an MEng from Brussels Free University. His technical interests include algorithm development and teaching. Nicolai M. Josuttis is an independent systems architect, technical manager, consultant, and trainer, and has been active in C++ standardisation for 20 years. Sitting in the Library Working Group he especially cares for the view of the ordinary application programmer. He is well known in the C++ community for speaking and writing with authority, being the author of The C++ Standard Library?A Tutorial and Reference, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2012), and other books. Douglas Gregor is a senior compiler developer with a background in C++ library design. As an early contributor to Boost, he developed several libranes that became part of the C++ standard. Later, he led the Implementation of the open source Clang C++ compiler as its code owner through the completion of C++11 support, and was active in the standardisation of C++11. He holds a PhD in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutes