Professional C++, 6th Edition

32Incorporating Design Techniques and Frameworks

WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER?

• An overview of C++ language features that are common, but for which you might have forgotten the syntax
• What RAII is and why it is a powerful concept
• What the double dispatch technique is and how to use it
• Various techniques to implement and use mixin classes
• What frameworks are
• The model-view-controller paradigm

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One of the major themes of this book has been the adoption of reusable techniques and patterns. As a programmer, you tend to face similar problems repeatedly. With an arsenal of diverse approaches, you can save yourself time by applying the proper technique or pattern to a given problem.

This chapter is about design techniques, while the next chapter is about design patterns. Both represent standard approaches for solving particular problems; however, design techniques are specific to C++, whereas design patterns are less language-specific. Often, a design technique aims to overcome an annoying feature or language deficiency. Other times, a design technique is a piece of code that you use in many different programs to solve a common C++ problem.

Design techniques are C++ idioms that aren't necessarily built-in parts of the language but are nonetheless frequently ...