Re: Dead Tree version of C++11?

From:
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
19 Mar 2014 22:26:45 GMT
Message-ID:
<standard-20140319232551@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:

ISO. It will also (probably) be cheaper and better quality than
printing it out yourself, and the binding will be better. It won't be
as nice as a "real" book, but maybe the OP would prefer it to a plain
pdf or a non-existent C++11 book.


  I once bought the printed ANSI C standard from 1989 and can
  report that this was not a ?real? book, but had a rather
  large format (letter legal?) and a quite soft cover.

Another option, of course, is to get the 4th edition of the C++
Programming Language which is a fairly complete description of C++11 and
is a lot more readable than the standards document.


  The explanation that ?::std::distance? in the case of a
  non-random-access iterator will incrementally increment the
  iterator until it has reached the second iterator might not
  be extensive enough in this book. Thus, a reader of that
  book fail to understand a program such as the following.

#include <ostream>
#include <iterator>
int main()
{ using P = ::std::istream_iterator< char >;
  ::std::cout << distance( P{ ::std::cin }, P{} ) << '\n'; }

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