Beginning C++23: From Beginner to Pro

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I. Horton, P. Van WeertBeginning C++23https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9343-0_9

9. Vocabulary Types

Ivor Horton¹   and Peter Van Weert²

(1)

Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK

(2)

Kessel-Lo, Belgium

 

Some data types will be as much a part of your daily vocabulary as basic types, such as int or double. You’ll use them everywhere, all the time: in your function signatures, in your algorithms, as member variables of your classes (see later), and so on. We call such types vocabulary types. In modern C++, they are one of the cornerstones of understandable, maintainable, and safe code.

In fact, you already know some vocabulary types, including std::unique_ptr<> ...