Appendix . Epilogue

 

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

 
 --Cicero
 

I have no idea what I’m going to write until the moment I sit down at the typewriter.

 
 --Larry McMurtry

I hope you’ve enjoyed the first part of our journey into STL extension. I know I have. Well, sort of; as with my previous book-writing activities, it has taken about four times as long as I expected. Notwithstanding, I’m silly enough to be trying again, and not once, but twice! So, as long as my lovely wife doesn’t (deservedly) throttle me for again risking penury, one of the following portents is true.

Matthew Wilson will return in Breaking Up the Monolith

wherein the shim concept, the Type Tunneling and Handle::Ref+Wrapper patterns, ...

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