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C++17 STL Cookbook

By : Jacek Galowicz
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C++17 STL Cookbook

By: Jacek Galowicz

Overview of this book

C++ has come a long way and is in use in every area of the industry. Fast, efficient, and flexible, it is used to solve many problems. The upcoming version of C++ will see programmers change the way they code. If you want to grasp the practical usefulness of the C++17 STL in order to write smarter, fully portable code, then this book is for you. Beginning with new language features, this book will help you understand the language’s mechanics and library features, and offers insight into how they work. Unlike other books, ours takes an implementation-specific, problem-solution approach that will help you quickly overcome hurdles. You will learn the core STL concepts, such as containers, algorithms, utility classes, lambda expressions, iterators, and more, while working on practical real-world recipes. These recipes will help you get the most from the STL and show you how to program in a better way. By the end of the book, you will be up to date with the latest C++17 features and save time and effort while solving tasks elegantly using the STL.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Calling multiple functions with the same input


There are a lot of tasks, which lead to repetitive code. A lot of repetitive code can be eliminated easily using lambda expressions and a lambda expression helper that wraps such repetitive tasks is created very quickly.

In this section, we will play with lambda expressions in order to forward a single call with all its parameters to multiple receivers. This is going to happen without any data structures in between, so the compiler has a simple job to generate a binary without overhead.

How to do it...

We are going to write a lambda expression helper, which forwards a single call to multiple objects, and another lambda expression helper, which forwards a single call to multiple calls of other functions. In our example, we are going to use this to print a single message with different printer functions:

  1. Let's include the STL header we need for printing first:
      #include <iostream>
  1. At first, we implement the multicall function, which is central...