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Template Metaprogramming with C++

By : Marius Bancila
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Book Image

Template Metaprogramming with C++

5 (1)
By: Marius Bancila

Overview of this book

Learn how the metaprogramming technique enables you to create data structures and functions that allow computation to happen at compile time. With this book, you'll realize how templates help you avoid writing duplicate code and are key to creating generic libraries, such as the standard library or Boost, that can be used in a multitude of programs. The introductory chapters of this book will give you insights into the fundamentals of templates and metaprogramming. You'll then move on to practice writing complex templates and exploring advanced concepts such as template recursion, template argument deduction, forwarding references, type traits, and conditional compilation. Along the way, you'll learn how to write variadic templates and how to provide requirements to the template arguments with C++20 constraints and concepts. Finally, you'll apply your knowledge of C++ metaprogramming templates to implement various metaprogramming patterns and techniques. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to write effective templates and implement metaprogramming in your everyday programming journey.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: Core Template Concepts
5
Part 2: Advanced Template Features
9
Part 3: Applied Templates
Appendix: Closing Notes

Chapter 9, The Ranges Library

Question 1

What is a range?

Answer

A range is an abstraction for a sequence of elements, defined with a beginning and end iterator. The beginning iterator points to the first element in the sequence. The end iterator points to the one-past-last element of the sequence.

Question 2

What is a view in the ranges library?

Answer

A view in the C++ ranges library, also called a range adaptor, is an object that implements an algorithm that takes one or more ranges as input and perhaps other arguments and returns an adapted range. Views are lazy-evaluated, meaning they do not perform the adaptation until their elements are iterated.

Question 3

What are constrained algorithms?

Answer

Constrained algorithms are implementations of the existing standard library algorithms but in the C++20 ranges library. They are called constrained because their template arguments are constrained using C++20 concepts. In these algorithms, instead of...