On 2013-10-20, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> writes: > >> Scott Meyers is an incredibly smart C++ wizard. His books are amazing. >> The fact that it takes somebody that smart, and books that amazing, to >> teach you how not to shoot yourself in the foot with a C++ compiler says >> a lot about the language. > > +1 QotW
The existence of the STL shows a counterpoint to the complexity. There are rewards for the complexity, in other words. Some of the recipes in Meyers' books are amazing: The combination of class templates, the envelope pattern, and template specialization, for example; you get a generic interface with a decoupled implementation which can be optimized for specific types at need. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
