C++ Primer, Fourth Edition

Part V. Advanced Topics

CONTENTS

Chapter 17 Tools for Large Programs

Chapter 18 Specialized Tools and Techniques

Part V covers additional features that, although useful in the right context, are not needed by every C++ programmer. These features divide into two clusters: those that are useful for large-scale problems and those that are applicable to specialized problems rather than general ones.

Chapter 17 covers exception handling, namespaces, and multiple inheritance. These features tend to be most useful in the context of large-scale problems.

Even programs simple enough to be written by a single author can benefit from exception handling, which is why we introduced the basics of exception handling in Chapter 6. However, the need to deal ...