Footnotes

Making the Most of This Book

1 We borrowed this idea from Andrew Koenig and Barbara Moo’s Accelerated C++: Practical Programming By Example [KM00].

Chapter 1

1 In philosophy and, as it happens, programming, the prefix “meta” is used to mean “about” or “one level of description higher,” as derived from the original Greek meaning “beyond” or “behind.”

2 This is provided that we also implemented an appropriate yylex function to tokenize the text. See Chapter 10 for a complete example or, better yet, pick up a YACC manual.

Chapter 2

1 The standard also allows templates to be passed as template parameters. If that’s not mind-bending enough for you, these parameters are treated in the standard “as types for descriptive purposes.” Templates ...

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