3. A Tour of C++: Abstraction Mechanisms

Don’t Panic!

– Douglas Adams

• Introduction

• Classes

Concrete Types; Abstract Types; Virtual Functions; Class Hierarchies

• Copy and Move

Copying Containers; Moving Containers; Resource Management; Suppressing Operations

• Templates

Parameterized Types; Function Templates; Function Objects; Variadic Templates; Aliases

• Advice

3.1. Introduction

This chapter aims to give you an idea of C++’s support for abstraction and resource management without going into a lot of detail. It informally presents ways of defining and using new types (user-defined types). In particular, it presents the basic properties, implementation techniques, and language facilities used for concrete classes, abstract classes, and ...

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