C++ Templates: The Complete Guide

Preface

The idea of templates in C++ is more than ten years old. C++ templates were already documented in 1990 in the “Annotated C++ Reference Manual” or so-called “ARM” (see [EllisStroustrupARM]) and they had been described before that in more specialized publications. However, well over a decade later we found a dearth of literature that concentrates on the fundamental concepts and advanced techniques of this fascinating, complex, and powerful C++ feature. We wanted to address this issue and decided to write the book about templates (with perhaps a slight lack of humility).

However, we approached the task with different backgrounds and with different intentions. David, an experienced compiler implementer and member of the C++ Standard Committee ...