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The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition
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The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition

by Bjarne Stroustrup
May 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1376 pages
47h 26m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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6. Types and Declarations

Perfection is achieved only on the point of collapse.

– C. N. Parkinson

The ISO C++ Standard

Implementations; The Basic Source Character Set

Types

Fundamental Types; Booleans; Character Types; Integer Types; Floating-Point Types; Prefixes and Suffixes; void; Sizes; Alignment

Declarations

The Structure of Declarations; Declaring Multiple Names; Names; Scope; Initialization; Deducing a Type: auto and decltype()

Objects and Values

Lvalues and Rvalues; Lifetimes of Objects

Type Aliases

Advice

6.1. The ISO C++ Standard

The C++ language and standard library are defined by their ISO standard: ISO/IEC 14882:2011. In this book, references to the standard are of the form §iso.23.3.6.1. In cases where the text of this ...

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