Ask HN: How to refresh on modern features of C++?

Post by jmount » Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 4:33 PM UTC

shmerl wrote: post #9

Just read the new edition of C++ Programming language by Bjarne Stroustrup ;) Some things are hard to come by in any shorter sources. And at times you have to dig into the standard. An example of rather obscure thing in C++ which changed in C++11 (sequencing): http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/eval_order And another thing which can be pretty confusing without carefully reading the standard. Copy elision vs mo…

Post by shmerl » Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 4:37 PM UTC

jmount wrote: post #11

shmerl wrote: post #9

Just read the new edition of C++ Programming language by Bjarne Stroustrup ;) Some things are hard to come by in any shorter sources. And at times you have to dig into the standard. An example of rather obscure thing in C++ which changed in C++11 (sequencing): http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/eval_order And another thing which can be pretty confusing without carefully reading the standard. Copy elision vs mo…

Not to be disrespectful- but I want to learn more about C++ from anybody but Stroustrup. His writing (to me at least) always has the aspect of "nothing is wrong, and every compromise was picked correctly." I'd much rather read somebody like Meyers who will actually warn you away from some mal-features. And C++ is so large you really want a useful editorial view to any teaching.

Post by Cyph0n » Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 4:58 PM UTC

jerv wrote: post #4

Herb Sutter, one of the most prolific C++ experts out there, recently gave a talk on Modern C++ [1]. In the beginning of his talk, he states that every C++ developer should read a "Tour of C++" [2] by Bjarne Stroustrup, the original designer of C++. I recently read it and it's great. The book has less than 200p, but still covers the most important parts of C++11, albeit not in great detail (the reader is pointed to "…

Post by gdy » Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 5:12 PM UTC

Post by vowelless » Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 5:17 PM UTC