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C++ Cookbook
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C++ Cookbook

by D. Ryan Stephens, Christopher Diggins, Jonathan Turkanis, Jeff Cogswell
November 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
594 pages
16h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Introduction

Perhaps one of the reasons C++ has been so popular is its ability to serve small, large, and massive projects well. You can write a few classes for a small prototype or research project, and as the project grows and people are added, C++ will allow you to scale the application into modules that have varying degrees of independence. The trade-off is that you have to make time to do some manual reorganization along the way (adding namespaces, rearranging your header files’ physical locations, etc.). Usually this is worth it though, because you can make your application modular and let different people focus only on their logical, functional areas.

The manual labor that you have to invest along the way is inversely proportional to the amount of time you spend designing modularity in the first place. Start with some of the good techniques for modularization, and your code base will scale.

If you don’t already use namespaces, you’ve probably at least heard of them, and very likely you use one already: the std namespace, which is the namespace that contains the standard library. Namespaces are not used as frequently as they ought to be, in my experience, but that’s not because they’re complicated or using them requires much effort. Recipe 2.3 explains how to modularize code with namespaces.

Many of the recipes in this chapter describe techniques that you apply from within header files. Since there are a number of facilities discussed, each explaining a different part of a header ...

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