The C++ Programming Language, Special Edition

Appendix C. Technicalities

	Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe, there is a reason.
	--Slartibartfast

What the standard promises — character sets — integer literals — constant expressions — promotions and conversions — multidimensional arrays — fields and unions — memory management — garbage collection — namespaces — access control — pointers to data members — templates — static members — friends — templates as template parameters — template argument deduction — typename and template qualification — instantiation — name binding — templates and namespaces — explicit instantiation — advice.

Introduction and Overview

This chapter presents technical details and examples that do not fit neatly into my presentation of the main C++ language ...