Chapter 11. Operator Overloading, Copy/Move Semantics and Smart Pointers
Objectives
In this chapter, you’ll:
■ Use built-in string class overloaded operators.
■ Use operator overloading to help you craft valuable classes.
■ Understand the special member functions and when to implement them for custom types.
■ Understand when objects should be moved vs. copied.
■ Use rvalue references and move semantics to eliminate unnecessary copies of temporary objects that are going out of scope, improving program performance.
■ Understand why you should avoid dynamic memory management with operators new and delete.
■ Manage dynamic memory automatically with ...
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