The C++ Programming Language, Special Edition

Chapter 4. Types and Declarations

	Accept nothing short of perfection!
	--anon

	Perfection is achieved only on the point of collapse.
	--C. N. Parkinson

Types — fundamental types — Booleans — characters — character literals — integers — integer literals — floating-point types — floating-point literals — sizes — void — enumerations — declarations — names — scope — initialization — objects — typedefs — advice — exercises.

Types

Consider

x = y+f(2);

For this to make sense in a C++ program, the names x, y, and f must be suitably declared. That is, the programmer must specify that entities named x, y, and f exist and that they are of types for which = (assignment), + (addition), and () (function call), respectively, are meaningful.

Every name (identifier) ...