Chapter 14. Templates and Exceptions
This chapter introduces two advanced C++ features: templates and exceptions. Templates make it possible to use one function or class to handle many different data types. Exceptions provide a convenient, uniform way to handle errors that occur within classes. These features are combined in a single chapter largely for historical reasons: they became part of C++ at the same time. They were not part of the original specification for C++, but were introduced as “Experimental” topics in Ellis and Stroustrup (1990, see Appendix H, “Bibliography”). Subsequently they were incorporated into Standard C++.
The template concept can be used ...
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