Chapter 8
More on Classes
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER:
- What a destructor is and when and why you need to define it
- How to implement a destructor
- How to create class data members in the free store and how to delete them
- When you must write a copy constructor for a class
- What a union is and how it can be used
- How to make class objects work with operators such as + or *
- How to use rvalue reference parameters to avoid unnecessary copying of class objects
- What class templates are and how you define and use them
- What perfect forwarding is and how you can achieve it
- How to use the standard string class for string operations
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