6. Types and Declarations

Perfection is achieved only on the point of collapse.

– C. N. Parkinson

• The ISO C++ Standard

Implementations; The Basic Source Character Set

• Types

Fundamental Types; Booleans; Character Types; Integer Types; Floating-Point Types; Prefixes and Suffixes; void; Sizes; Alignment

• Declarations

The Structure of Declarations; Declaring Multiple Names; Names; Scope; Initialization; Deducing a Type: auto and decltype()

• Objects and Values

Lvalues and Rvalues; Lifetimes of Objects

• Type Aliases

• Advice

6.1. The ISO C++ Standard

The C++ language and standard library are defined by their ISO standard: ISO/IEC 14882:2011. In this book, references to the standard are of the form §iso.23.3.6.1. In cases where the text of this ...

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