C++ How to Program, 10/e

18.1 Introduction

Templates have become extremely important in writing industrial-strength code. We’ve used templates in Chapters 6, 7 and 13–17. In this chapter, we introduce some additional template capabilities and we continue using templates through the rest of the book. Figure 18.1 summarizes our template coverage.

Fig. 18.1 Summary of recursion examples and exercises in the text.

Location in text	Discusses
Chapter 6
Section 6.9	C++11 uniform_int_distribution class template for random-number generation.
Section 6.17	Defining a function template.
Chapter 7	Class templates array and vector for manipulating collections of elements.
Chapter 13
Section 13.2	The stream-processing classes, which are class templates.