Effective Modern C++

Acknowledgments

I started investigating what was then known as C++0x (the nascent C++11) in 2009. I posted numerous questions to the Usenet newsgroup comp.std.c++, and I’m grateful to the members of that community (especially Daniel Krügler) for their very helpful postings. In more recent years, I’ve turned to Stack Overflow when I had questions about C++11 and C++14, and I’m equally indebted to that community for its help in understanding the finer points of modern C++. 

In 2010, I prepared materials for a training course on C++0x (ultimately published as Overview of the New C++, Artima Publishing, 2010). Both those materials and my knowledge greatly benefited from the technical vetting performed by Stephan T. Lavavej, Bernhard Merkle, Stanley Friesen, Leor Zolman, Hendrik Schober, and Anthony Williams. Without their help, I would probably never have been in a position to undertake Effective Modern C++. That title, incidentally, was suggested or endorsed by several readers responding to my 18 February 2014 blog post, “Help me name my book,” and Andrei Alexandrescu (author of Modern C++ Design, Addison-Wesley, 2001) was kind enough to bless the title as not poaching on his terminological turf. 

I’m unable to identify the origins of all the information in this book, but some sources had a relatively direct impact. Item 4’s use of an undefined template to coax type information out of compilers was suggested by Stephan T. Lavavej, and Matt P. Dziubinski brought Boost.TypeIndex to ...