January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
14h 5m
English
Content preview from Hands-On Design Patterns with C++
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How is type erasure implemented in C++?
We have seen what type erasure looks like in C++. Now we understand what it means for a program to not explicitly depend on a type. But the mystery remains—the program makes no mention of the type, and yet, at the right time, invokes an operation on the type it knows nothing about. How? That is what we are about to see.