December 2004
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
8h 29m
English
book
C++ Template Metaprogramming: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques from Boost and Beyond
by David Abrahams, Aleksey Gurtovoy
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Making the Most of This Book
1 We borrowed this idea from Andrew Koenig and Barbara Moo’s Accelerated C++: Practical Programming By Example [KM00].
Chapter 1
1 In philosophy and, as it happens, programming, the prefix “meta” is used to mean “about” or “one level of description higher,” as derived from the original Greek meaning “beyond” or “behind.”
2 This is provided that we also implemented an appropriate yylex function to tokenize the text. See Chapter 10 for a complete example or, better yet, pick up a YACC manual.
Chapter 2
1 The standard also allows templates to be passed as template parameters. If that’s not mind-bending enough for you, these parameters are treated in the standard “as types for descriptive purposes.” Templates ...
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