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Expert C++ - Second Edition

By : Marcelo Guerra Hahn, Araks Tigranyan, John Asatryan, Vardan Grigoryan, Shunguang Wu
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Book Image

Expert C++ - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Marcelo Guerra Hahn, Araks Tigranyan, John Asatryan, Vardan Grigoryan, Shunguang Wu

Overview of this book

Are you an experienced C++ developer eager to take your skills to the next level? This updated edition of Expert C++ is tailored to propel you toward your goals. This book takes you on a journey of building C++ applications while exploring advanced techniques beyond object-oriented programming. Along the way, you'll get to grips with designing templates, including template metaprogramming, and delve into memory management and smart pointers. Once you have a solid grasp of these foundational concepts, you'll advance to more advanced topics such as data structures with STL containers and explore advanced data structures with C++. Additionally, the book covers essential aspects like functional programming, concurrency, and multithreading, and designing concurrent data structures. It also offers insights into designing world-ready applications, incorporating design patterns, and addressing networking and security concerns. Finally, it adds to your knowledge of debugging and testing and large-scale application design. With Expert C++ as your guide, you'll be empowered to push the boundaries of your C++ expertise and unlock new possibilities in software development.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1:Under the Hood of C++ Programming
7
Part 2: Designing Robust and Efficient Applications
18
Part 3:C++ in the AI World

Using iterators in C++20

Iterators were the first to fully use concepts after they were introduced. Iterators and their categories are now considered legacy because, starting from C++20, we use iterator concepts such as readable (which specifies that the type is readable by applying the * operator) and writable (which specifies that a value can be written to an object referenced by the iterator). Let’s look at how incrementable is defined in the <iterator> header, as promised:

template <typename T>concept incrementable = std::regular<T> && std::weakly_incrementable<T> && requires (T t) { {t++} -> std::same_as<T>; };

Therefore, the incrementable concept requires the type to be std::regular. This means it should be constructible by default and have a copy constructor and operator==(). Besides that, the incrementable concept requires the type to be weakly_incrementable, which means the type supports pre- and post-increment...