A Tour of C++, 3rd Edition

6

Essential Operations

When someone says I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done, give him a lollipop.

– Alan Perlis

• Introduction

  Essential Operations; Conversions; Member Initializers

• Copy and Move

  Copying Containers; Moving Containers

• Resource Management

• Operator Overloading

• Conventional Operations

  Comparisons; Container Operations; Iterators and “Smart Pointers”; Input and Output Operators; swap(); hash<>

• User-Defined Literals

• Advice

6.1 Introduction

Some operations, such as initialization, assignment, copy, and move, are fundamental in the sense that language rules make assumptions about them. Other operations, such as == and <<, have conventional meanings that are perilous to ignore.

6.1.1 Essential Operations ...