May 2015
Intermediate to advanced
572 pages
9h 52m
English
CHAPTER 12
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C++0x
“I note that every C++0x feature has been implemented by someone somewhere.”
Bjarne Stroustrup
We conventionally call “classic C++” the language in its final revision in 2003, as opposed to “modern C++” (also informally known as C++0x), introduced in 2011 and subsequently refined in 2014. The set of changes was huge, but the new rules in general were written to ease TMP and make the code less verbose. Additionally, compilers come with a new arsenal of standard classes, containers, language tools (like std::bind), and traits that expose meta-information previously known only to the compiler.1
The simplest example is the metafunction ...