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Notes about C++
Basic facilities
Basic facilities
Fundamental types i C++
Booleans
Structs in C++
Declarations and definitions
The structure of a declaration
Declaring several names together
Declarations as statements - declarations in conditions
Constants
The general notation of objects in C++
Lvalues
C-style strings
C++ style strings
Strings - examples
References
Rules for references
References - Examples
Constant References
References versus Pointers
Parameter passing in C++
Value return
Type conversion - Grand Overview
Implicit type conversions
Explicit type conversion
Function Overloading
Function Overloading - more detailed rules
Function Overloading - Examples
Vectors in C++
Vectors - examples
The free store
Input and output in C++
Overloaded operators and IO
Standard streams
Stream State
Manipulators
More manipulators
Logical program organization
More namespaces
Physical program organization
Example of program organization
The standard library namespace
Point Exercise - C++ versus C#
Value return
The semantics of value return is that of
initialization
The C++ Programming Language
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Value return
A copy is returned, initializing an unnamed variable
The copy constructor is used - not the assignment operator
Return of local variables
OK by value
References or pointers to local (automatic) variables should not be returned
