C++ Primer

Stanley B. Lippman has served as distinguished consultant for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, architect for the Visual C++ development group at Microsoft, member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories, and principal software engineer in feature animation at Disney, DreamWorks, Pixar, and PDI. Josee Lajoie, now at Pixar, was a member of IBM Canada,s C/C++ compiler development team, and chaired the core language working group for the previous ANSI/ISO C++ Standard Committee. Barbara E. Moo is an independent consultant with over 30 years of software experience. During 15 years at AT&T, she worked on one of the first commercial products ever written in C++.

Preface   xxiii

Chapter 1: Getting Started   1

1.1 Writing a Simple C++ Program   2

1.2 A First Look at Input/Output   5

1.3 A Word About Comments   9

1.4 Flow of Control   11

1.5 Introducing Classes   19

1.6 The Bookstore Program   24

Chapter Summary   26

Defined Terms   26

Part I: The Basics   29

Chapter 2: Variables and Basic Types   31

2.1 Primitive Built-in Types   32

2.2 Variables   41

2.3 Compound Types   50

2.4 const Qualifier   59

2.5 Dealing with Types   67

2.6 Defining Our Own  Data Structures   72

Chapter Summary   78

Defined Terms 78

Chapter 3: Strings, Vectors, and Arrays   81

3.1 Namespace using Declarations   82

3.2 Library string Type   84

3.3 Library vector Type   96

3.4 Introducing Iterators 106

3.5 Arrays   113

3.6 Multidimensional Arrays   125

Chapter Summary   131

Defined Terms   131

Chapter 4: Expressions   133

4.1 Fundamentals 134

4.2 Arithmetic Operators   139

4.3 Logical and Relational Operators   141

4.4 Assignment Operators   144

4.5 Increment and Decrement Operators   147

4.6 The Member Access Operators   150

4.7 The Conditional Operator   151

4.8 The Bitwise Operators   152

4.9 The sizeof Operator   156

4.10 Comma Operator 157

4.11 Type Conversions   159

4.12 Operator Precedence Table   166

Chapter Summary   168

Defined Terms   168

Chapter 5: Statements   171

5.1 Simple Statements   172

5.2 Statement Scope   174

5.3 Conditional Statements 174

5.4 Iterative Statements   183

5.5 Jump Statements   190

5.6 try Blocks and Exception Handling   193

Chapter Summary   199

Defined Terms   199

Chapter 6: Functions   201

6.1 Function Basics  202

6.2 Argument Passing   208

6.3 Return Types and the return Statement   222

6.4 Overloaded Functions   230

6.5 Features for Specialized Uses   236

6.6 Function Matching   242

6.7 Pointers to Functions   247

Chapter Summary 251

Defined Terms   251

Chapter 7: Classes   253

7.1 De...