Exceptional C++ Style

Organized around practical problems and solutions, this book offers new insight into crucial C++ details and interrelationships, and new strategies for today's key C++ programming techniques--including generic programming, STL, exception safety, and more. You'll find answers to questions like: - What can you learn about library design from the STL itself? - How do you avoid making templated code needlessly non-generic? - Why shouldn't you specialize function templates? What should you do instead? - How does exception safety go beyond try and catch statements? - Should you use exception specifications, or not? - When and how should you "leak" the private parts of a class? - How do you make classes safer for versioning? - What's the real memory cost of using standard containers? - How can using const really optimize your code? - How does writing inline affect performance? - When does code that looks wrong actually compile and run perfectly, and why should you care? - What's wrong with the design of std::string? Exceptional C++ Style will help you design, architect, and code with style--and achieve greater robustness and performance in all your C++ software.