Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied

By Jason T.L. Wang, Kevin Byron, Katherine G. Herbert, et al.

In Modern C++ Design, Andrei Alexandrescu opens new vistas for C++ programmers. Displaying extraordinary creativity and programming virtuosity, Alexandrescu offers a cutting-edge approach to design that unites design patterns, generic programming, and C++, enabling programmers to achieve expressive, flexible, and highly reusable code. This book introduces the concept of generic components--reusable design templates that produce boilerplate code for compiler consumption--all within C++. Generic components enable an easier and more seamless transition from design to application code, generate code that better expresses the original design intention, and support the reuse of design structures with minimal recoding. The author describes the specific C++ techniques and features that are used in building generic components and goes on to implement industrial strength generic components for real-world applications. Recurring issues that C++ developers face in their day-to-day activity are discussed in depth and implemented in a generic way. These include: Policy-based design for flexibility Partial template specialization Typelists--powerful type manipulation structures Patterns such as Visitor, Singleton, Command, and Factories Multi-method engines For each generic component, the book presents the fundamental problems and design options, and finally implements a generic solution.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201704315
• ISBN13: 9780201704310
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Template metaprogramming on crack

Simply put, this is one of the best C++ books I have come across. It will open your eyes to what generic programming really is and how it can be done with C++.As another review states, "this book is mostly about templates". Certainly true. This book takes templates where few have dared venture. Rather than use templates as a glorifed macro system, Alexandrescu uses templates to define small code generation engines. Your...

Read this milestone book!

I highly recommended this book if you are interested in generic techniques and Design PatternsThis book uses C++ and Generic programming techniques to implement GoF Design Patterns [1]. It introduces Andrei's "Generic Design Patterns Library", called "Loki". Loki's techniques are more important than the library itself and should be applicable in many other contexts. (Since the library is not yet available, I cannot comment...

An Essential C++ Book

First came type-safe containers and generic algorithms, and then came traits. Now, thanks to Andrei Alexandrescu's ground breaking new book "Modern C++ Design," we have policies. Policies provide a means of creating very flexible and extendable libraries with little to no run-time overhead.As an example consider the Singleton pattern. What is the lifetime of the singleton? Should it be destroyed? If so, when? What, if...

After two disappointments...

I was longing for a good book on advanced C++. First, I bought "Multi-Paradigm C++". It does have some insights but author's style is baroque to the extreme. A good cure for insomnia. Then I bought "Generative Programming". I found it too much of a PhD thesis garnished with too much fluff for my taste.Not wanting to risk anymore, I borrowed this book from a friend... to lose sleep for two nights reading it! It is the book...

A significant and valuable book; strongly recommended.

I was waiting for this, and pestering bookstores for it for 2 weeks before it arrived. And it still exceeded my expectations. Note: The author was partly responsible for the C++ ScopeGuard library - an amazing, essential piece of code.For any C++ engineers using reference counting (that'll be all of us, then), the amazingly configurable SmartPtr and the SmallObjectAllocator are instantly worth many times the price of the...