A Tour of C++, 2nd Edition

7

Concepts and Generic Programming

Programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms.

– Alex Stepanov

• Introduction

• Concepts

  Use of Concepts; Concept-Based Overloading; Valid Code; Definition of Concepts

• Generic Programming

  Use of Concepts; Abstraction Using Templates

• Variadic Templates

  Fold Expressions; Forwarding Arguments

• Template Compilation Model

• Advice

7.1 Introduction

What are templates for? In other words, what programming techniques are effective when you use templates? Templates offer:

• The ability to pass types (as well as values and templates) as arguments without loss of information. This implies excellent opportunities for inlining, of which current implementations take great advantage.

• Opportunities to weave together ...