A Tour of C++, 3rd Edition

8

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; Concepts and auto; Concepts and Types

• Generic Programming

  Use of Concepts; Abstraction Using Templates

• Variadic Templates

  Fold Expressions; Forwarding Arguments

• Template Compilation Model

• Advice

8.1 Introduction

What are templates for? In other words, what programming techniques are made effective by templates? Templates offer:

• The ability to pass types (as well as values and templates) as arguments without loss of information. This implies great flexibility in what can be expressed and excellent opportunities for inlining, of which ...