Generic Programming and the C＋＋ Standard Library

1. Uses and Abuses of vector

2. The String Formatters of Manor Farm, Part 1: sprintf

3. The String Formatters of Manor Farm, Part 2: Standard (or Blindingly Elegant) Alternatives

4. Standard Library Member Functions

5. Flavors of Genericity, Part 1: Covering the Basis [sic]

6. Flavors of Genericity, Part 2: Generic Enough?

7. Why Not Specialize Function Templates?

8. Befriending Templates

9. Export Restrictions, Part 1: Fundamentals

10. Export Restrictions, Part 2: Interactions, Usability Issues, and Guidelines

Exception Safety Issues and Techniques

11. Try and Catch Me

12. Exception Safety: Is It Worth It?

13. A Pragmatic Look at Exception Specifications

Class Design, Inheritance, and Polymorphism

14. Order, Order!

15. Uses and Abuses of Access Rights

16. (Mostly) Private

17. Encapsulation

18. Virtuality

19. Enforcing Rules for Derived Classes

Memory and Resource Management

20. Containers in Memory, Part 1: Levels of Memory Management

21. Containers in Memory, Part 2: How Big Is It Really?

22. To new, Perchance to throw, Part 1: The Many Faces of new

23. To new, Perchance to throw, Part 2: Pragmatic Issues in Memory Management

Optimization and Efficiency

24. Constant Optimization?

25. inline Redux

26. Data Formats and Efficiency, Part 1: When Compression Is the Name of the Game

27. Data Formats and Efficiency, Part 2: (Even Less) Bit-Twiddling

Traps, Pitfalls, and Puzzlers

28. Keywords That Aren't (or, Comments by Another Name)

29. Is It Initalizafion?

30. double or Nothing

31. Amok Code

32. Slight Typos? Graphic Language and Other Curiosities

33. Operators, Operators Everywhere

Style Case Studies

34. Index Tables

35. Generic Callbacks

36. Construction Unions

37. Monoliths "Unstrung," Part 1: A Look at std::string

38. Monoliths "Unstrung," Part 2: Refactoring std::string

39. Monoliths "Unstrung," Part 3: std::string Diminishing

40. Monoliths "Unstrung," Part 4: std::string Redux

Bibliography

Index