Acknowledgments
Effective C++ has existed for fifteen years, and I started learning C++ about five years before I wrote the book. The “Effective C++ project” has thus been under development for two decades. During that time, I have benefited from the insights, suggestions, corrections, and, occasionally, dumbfounded stares of hundreds (thousands?) of people. Each has helped improve Effective C++. I am grateful to them all.
I've given up trying to keep track of where I learned what, but one general source of information has helped me as long as I can remember: the Usenet C++ newsgroups, especially comp.lang.c++.moderated and comp.std.c++. Many of the Items in this book — perhaps most — have benefited from the vetting of technical ideas at which ...
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