A Tour of C++

11. Utilities

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

– Bertrand Russell

• Introduction

• Resource Management

unique_ptr and shared_ptr

• Specialized Containers

array; bitset; pair and tuple

• Time

• Function Adaptors

bind(); mem_fn(); function

• Type Functions

iterator_traits; Type Predicates

• Advice

11.1. Introduction

Not all standard-library components come as part of obviously labeled facilities, such as “containers” or “I/O.” This section gives a few examples of small, widely useful components. The point here is that a function or a type need not be complicated or closely tied to a mass of other functions and types to be useful. Such library components mostly act as building blocks for more powerful library facilities, including ...