{"id":1180,"date":"2018-10-25T06:33:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T06:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cppdepend.com\/blog\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2018-10-26T10:33:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:33:49","slug":"c-17-in-detail-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cppdepend.com\/blog\/c-17-in-detail-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"C++ 17 In Detail Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since its creation, C++ evolved continuously and it passed many major milestones from the C with classes to the rise of the new standards. From 1991 to 2011 the language evolved slowly and the evolution comes from the libraries like STL and Boost. However, from 2011 many features were added to the standard, thanks to the new standards C++11, C++14, C++17, and the coming C++20.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently the C++ community promotes the use of new standards to modernize the existing code base. \u00a0<\/span>Bart\u0142omiej Filipek<\/span><\/a> is one of the most active bloggers from the C++ community who contribute to promoting the new standards. He wrote an excellent book about the C++17 standard features. And here\u2019s a quick review of his book.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pragmatic approach<\/b><\/p>\n

In the computer science world, there are many academic books mostly destined to students and there are some other books mainly destined to the developers who need an advice of how to resolve real problems when developing a product. \u00a0You learn by coding, indeed few pages do not contain source code. Every explanation is demonstrated by at least one code sample.<\/span><\/p>\n

The code samples are very well formatted, easy to read and clean.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Also, the book author gives us much practical info like the compiler support for each feature.<\/span>
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The Whole picture from the beginning:<\/b><\/p>\n

In general to have an idea about a book content we can take a look at the index and read the introduction. However, in many cases, it\u2019s not really sufficient to have a clear idea about the goal of the book.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s interesting in this book is that we have a \u201cQuick Overview\u201d section which contains 4 pages and explains clearly the content of the book.<\/span><\/p>\n

New Language features demystified:<\/b><\/p>\n

The book enumerates almost all the new C++17 features grouped by section.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even if some features are difficult to understand, Bart\u0142omiej Filipek adopts the \u201cKeep it simple\u201d approach and any feature is very well explained using basic samples. For example in the templates new features section which includes:<\/span><\/p>\n