C++ Templates The Complete Guide

, by Vandevoorde, David; Josuttis, Nicolai M.

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ISBN: 9780201734843 | 0201734842
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/12/2002

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With the greatly increased use of templates there is a real need in the C++ community for this information. This book is the next C++ classic acting as both a complete reference as well as a tutorial. It emphasizes the practical use of templates, and includes real-world examples.

Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
About This Book	p. 1
What You Should Know Before Reading This Book	p. 2
Overall Structure of the Book	p. 2
How to Read This Book	p. 3
Some Remarks About Programming Style	p. 3
The Standard versus Reality	p. 5
Example Code and Additional Informations	p. 5
Feedback	p. 5
The Basics	p. 7
Function Templates	p. 9
A First Look at Function Templates	p. 9
Argument Deduction	p. 12
Template Parameters	p. 13
Overloading Function Templates	p. 15
Summary	p. 19
Class Templates	p. 21
Implementation of Class Template Stack	p. 21
Use of Class Template Stack	p. 25
Specializations of Class Templates	p. 27
Partial Specialization	p. 29
Default Template Arguments	p. 30
Summary	p. 33
Nontype Template Parameters	p. 35
Nontype Class Template Parameters	p. 35
Nontype Function Template Parameters	p. 39
Restrictions for Nontype Template Parameters	p. 40
Summary	p. 41
Tricky Basics	p. 43
Keyword typename	p. 43
Using this->	p. 45
Member Templates	p. 45
Template Template Parameters	p. 50
Zero Initialization	p. 56
Using String Literals as Arguments for Function Templates	p. 57
Summary	p. 60
Using Templates in Practice	p. 61
The Inclusion Model	p. 61
Explicit Instantiation	p. 65
The Separation Model	p. 68
Templates and inline	p. 72
Precompiled Headers	p. 72
Debugging Templates	p. 74
Afternotes	p. 85
Summary	p. 85
Basic Template Terminology	p. 87
"Class Template" or "Template Class"?	p. 87
Instantiation and Specialization	p. 88
Declarations versus Definitions	p. 89
The One-Definition Rule	p. 90
Template Arguments versus Template Parameters	p. 90
Templates in Depth	p. 93
Fundamentals in Depth	p. 95
Parameterized Declarations	p. 95
Template Parameters	p. 100
Template Arguments	p. 104
Friends	p. 113
Afternotes	p. 117
Names in Templates	p. 119
Name Taxonomy	p. 119
Looking Up Names	p. 121
Parsing Templates	p. 127
Derivation and Class Templates	p. 135
Afternotes	p. 139
Instantiation	p. 141
On-Demand Instantiation	p. 141
Lazy Instantiation	p. 143
The C++ Instantiation Model	p. 146
Implementation Schemes	p. 153
Explicit Instantiation	p. 159
Afternotes	p. 163
Template Argument Deduction	p. 167
The Deduction Process	p. 167
Deduced Contexts	p. 169
Special Deduction Situations	p. 171
Allowable Argument Conversions	p. 172
Class Template Parameters	p. 173
Default Call Arguments	p. 173
The Barton-Nackman Trick	p. 174
Afternotes	p. 177
Specialization and Overloading	p. 179
When "Generic Code" Doesn't Quite Cut It	p. 179
Overloading Function Templates	p. 183
Explicit Specialization	p. 190
Partial Class Template Specialization	p. 200
Afternotes	p. 203
Future Directions	p. 205
The Angle Bracket Hack	p. 205
Relaxed typename Rules	p. 206
Default Function Template Arguments	p. 207
String Literal and Floating-Point Template Arguments	p. 209
Relaxed Matching of Template Template Parameters	p. 211
Typedef Templates	p. 212
Partial Specialization of Function Templates	p. 213
The typeof Operator	p. 215
Named Template Arguments	p. 216
Static Properties	p. 218
Custom Instantiation Diagnostics	p. 218
Overloaded Class Templates	p. 221
List Parameters	p. 222
Layout Control	p. 224
Initializer Deduction	p. 225
Function Expressions	p. 226
Afternotes	p. 228
Templates and Design	p. 229
The Polymorphic Power of Templates	p. 231
Dynamic Polymorphism	p. 231
Static Polymorphism	p. 234
Dynamic versus Static Polymorphism	p. 238
New Forms of Design Patterns	p. 239
Generic Programming	p. 240
Afternotes	p. 243
Traits and Policy Classes	p. 245
An Example: Accumulating a Sequence	p. 245
Type Functions	p. 263
Policy Traits	p. 275
Afternotes	p. 284
Templates and Inheritance	p. 285
Named Template Arguments	p. 285
The Empty Base Class Optimization (EBCO)	p. 289
The Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (CRTP)	p. 295
Parameterized Virtuality	p. 298
Afternotes	p. 299
Metaprograms	p. 301
A First Example of a Metaprogram	p. 301
Enumeration Values versus Static Constants	p. 303
A Second Example: Computing the Square Root	p. 305
Using Induction Variables	p. 309
Computational Completeness	p. 312
Recursive Instantiation versus Recursive Template Arguments	p. 313
Using Metaprograms to Unroll Loops	p. 314
Afternotes	p. 318
Expression Templates	p. 321
Temporaries and Split Loops	p. 322
Encoding Expressions in Template Arguments	p. 328
Performance and Limitations of Expression Templates	p. 340
Afternotes	p. 341
Advanced Applications	p. 345
Type Classification	p. 347
Determining Fundamental Types	p. 347
Determining Compound Types	p. 350
Identifying Function Types	p. 352
Enumeration Classification with Overload Resolution	p. 356
Determining Class Types	p. 359
Putting It All Together	p. 359
Afternotes	p. 363
Smart Pointers	p. 365
Holders and Trules	p. 365
Reference Counting	p. 379
Afternotes	p. 394
Tuples	p. 395
Duos	p. 395
Recursive Duos	p. 401
Tuple Construction	p. 410
Afternotes	p. 415
Function Objects and Callbacks	p. 417
Direct, Indirect, and Inline Calls	p. 418
Pointers and References to Functions	p. 421
Pointer-to-Member Functions	p. 423
Class Type Functors	p. 426
Specifying Functors	p. 429
Introspection	p. 436
Function Object Composition	p. 445
Value Binders	p. 457
Functor Operations: A Complete Implementation	p. 471
Afternotes	p. 474
Appendixes	p. 475
The One-Definition Rule	p. 475
Translation Units	p. 475
Declarations and Definitions	p. 476
The One-Definition Rule in Detail	p. 477
Overload Resolution	p. 487
When Does Overload Resolution Kick In?	p. 488
Simplified Overload Resolution	p. 488
Overloading Details	p. 493
Bibliography	p. 499
Newsgroups	p. 499
Books and Web Sites	p. 500
Glossary	p. 507
Index	p. 517
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