Presentation Conventions
What anyone thinks of me is none of my business. | ||
| --Peter Brock | ||
Me fail English? That’s unpossible. | ||
| --Ralph Wiggum, The Simpsons | ||
Most presentation conventions in the book are self-evident, so I’ll just touch on those that warrant a little explanation.
Fonts
The fonts and capitalization scheme discriminates between the following types of things in the body text: API (e.g., the glob API), code, Concept (e.g., the shim concept), <headername.hpp>, Library (e.g., the ACE library), literal or path (e.g., "my string", NULL, 123, /usr/include), Pattern (e.g., the Façade pattern), Principle (e.g., the Principle of Least Surprise), shim (e.g., the get_ptr shim). Code listings use the following conventions:
// In namespace namespace_name ...Get Extended STL, Volume 1: Collections and Iterators now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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