C++ Templates

<p>David Vandevoorde is an engineer at the Edison Design Group. He is an active member of the ANSI C++ Standards Committee, and a cofounder of the newsgroup comp.lang.c++.moderated. A graduate of the Brussels Free University and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his interests include algorithm development, programming languages, and teaching. See www.vandevoorde.com.<p>Nicolai M. Josuttis is an independent technical consultant who designs object-oriented software for the telecommunications, traffic, finance, and manufacturing industries. He is an active member of the C++ Standards Committee Library Working Group. Nicolai has written several books on object-oriented programming and C++. See www.josuttis.com. <br> 0201734842AB09172002

Part I: The Basics

Chapter 1: Function Templates

Chapter 2: Class Templates

Chapter 3: Nontype Template Parameters

Chapter 4: Variadic Templates

Chapter 5: Tricky Basics

Chapter 6: Move Semantics and enable_if<>

Chapter 7: By-Value or By-Reference?

Chapter 8: Compile-Time Programming

Chapter 9: Using Templates in Practice

Chapter 10: Basic Template Terminology

Chapter 11: Generic Libraries

Chapter 12: Fundamentals in Depth

Chapter 13: Names in Templates

Chapter 14: Instantiation

Chapter 15: Template Argument Deduction

Chapter 16: Specialization and Overloading

Chapter 17: Future Directions

Part III: Templates and Design

Chapter 18: The Polymorphic Power of Templates

Chapter 19: Implementing Traits

Chapter 20: Overloading on Type Properties

Chapter 21: Templates and Inheritance

Chapter 22: Bridging and Static and Dynamic Polymorphism

Chapter 23: Metaprograms

Chapter 24: Typelists

Chapter 25: Tuples

Chapter 26: Discriminated Unions

Chapter 27: Expression Templates

Chapter 28: Debugging Templates

Appendixes

Appendix A: The One-Definition Rule

Appendix B: Value Categories

Appendix C: Overload Resolution

Appendix D: Standard Type and Meta Utilities

Appendix E: Concepts