Foreword by Scott Meyers
In 1991, I wrote the first edition of Effective C++. The book contained almost no discussions of templates, because templates were such a recent addition to the language, I knew almost nothing about them. What little template code I included, I had verified by e-mailing it to other people, because none of the compilers to which I had access offered support for templates.
In 1995, I wrote More Effective C++. Again I wrote almost nothing about templates. What stopped me this time was neither a lack of knowledge of templates (my initial outline for the book included an entire chapter on the topic) nor shortcomings on the part of my compilers. Instead, it was a suspicion that the C++ community’s understanding of templates ...
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