"If you're like me, you're excited by what people do with
template metaprogramming (TMP) but are frustrated at the lack of clear guidance
and powerful tools. Well, this is the book we've been waiting for. With help
from the excellent Boost Metaprogramming Library, David and Aleksey take TMP
from the laboratory to the workplace with readable prose and practical examples,
showing that "compile-time STL" is as able as its runtime counterpart. Serving
as a tutorial as well as a handbook for experts, this is the book on C++
template metaprogramming."Chuck Allison, Editor, The C++
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C++ Template
Metaprogramming sheds light on the most powerful idioms of today's
C++, at long last delivering practical metaprogramming tools and techniques into
the hands of the everyday programmer.
A metaprogram is a program that generates or manipulates
program code. Ever since generic programming was introduced to C++, programmers
have discovered myriad "template tricks" for manipulating programs as they are
compiled, effectively eliminating the barrier between program and metaprogram.
While excitement among C++ experts about these capabilities has reached the
community at large, their practical application remains out of reach for most
programmers. This book explains what metaprogramming is and how it is best used.
It provides the foundation you'll need to use the template metaprogramming
effectively in your own work.
This book is aimed at any programmer who is comfortable with
idioms of the Standard Template Library (STL). C++ power-users will gain a new
insight into their existing work and a new fluency in the domain of
metaprogramming. Intermediate-level programmers who have learned a few advanced
template techniques will see where these tricks fit in the big picture and will
gain the conceptual foundation to use them with discipline. Programmers who have
caught the scent of metaprogramming, but for whom it is still mysterious, will
finally gain a clear understanding of how, when, and why it works. All readers
will leave with a new tool of unprecedented power at their disposalthe Boost
Metaprogramming Library.
The companion CD-ROM contains all Boost C++ libraries,
including the Boost Metaprogramming Library and its reference documentation,
along with all of the book's sample code and extensive supplementary material.
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