by Gavin Baker gavinb@antonym.org
This source repository contains a series of sample programs designed to illustrate some of the major new features of C++11. It constitutes the complete set of source files to accompany the articles posted at:
Once drafts of the C++11 specification became widely available, numerous articles were published discussing the proposed new features. It became clear that this standards update was the most significant yet. C++11 introduces a raft of new language features, as well as sweeping changes and major new additions to the standard library.
I decided that reading about the new features wasn't enough; I had to use them, write lots of new code, experiment, and write up notes on the experience. That is the best way to really learn something new - theory followed by lots of practice. This series of articles is a distillation of this process, published here in the hope that it might be useful for others.
The subfolders herein contain code illustrating the following areas:
smart_pointers: modern memory managementthreads: multithreading and concurrencyasync: asynchronous processing with futures and promiseschrono: simple time point and duration supportregex: regular expressionsstring: numeric conversions
Each has a brief explanation, and a Makefile to build the samples.
This code has been tested on Mac OS X and Linux using the clang and gcc
toolchains. It should work on Windows with a suitably standards-conformant
compiler. Every effort has been made to ensure the code is portable, and to
avoid using any platform-specific features.
The text, explanations and relevant blog posts are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license:
To the extent that there exists any originality, the example source files are published under the MIT license (the simplest and most permissive):
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions for improvement, please feel free to drop me an email, or even send me a patch.
-- Melbourne, Summer 2014