Modern C++: Efficient and Scalable Application Development

Learning Modern Core Language Features

The recipes included in this chapter are as follows:

• Using auto whenever possible
• Creating type aliases and alias templates
• Understanding uniform initialization
• Understanding the various forms of non-static member initialization
• Controlling and querying object alignment
• Using scoped enumerations
• Using override and final for virtual methods
• Using range-based for loops to iterate on a range
• Enabling range-based for loops for custom types
• Using explicit constructors and conversion operators to avoid implicit conversion
• Using unnamed namespaces instead of static globals
• Using inline namespaces for symbol versioning
• Using structured bindings to handle multi-return values