pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) (04/22/89)
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >[...] In general, there is a grievous need for another book, a >companion to "The C++ Programming Language", to document and de-facto >standardize a bunch of basic libraries. C++'s big win is the ability to >write powerful and useful libraries, but most of the "well known" libraries >are documented in obscure technical reports, manual pages accompanying >particular implementations, or purely as folklore. The result is that >it's hard to find out about them and reinvention and mutation are rampant. The best collected documentation that I have found is in the `info' file for `libg++', the standard library for GNU's C++ compiler. The documentation is particularly useful because it is cross-referenced and is available both online and as printed copy. From the main index/menu (Copyright (C) 1988 Free Software Foundation, Inc.): * Copying:: GNU CC General Public License says how you can copy and share GNU C++ library. * Contributors:: People who have contributed to GNU C++ library. * Installation:: How to configure, compile and install GNU C++ library * Trouble:: If you have trouble installing GNU C++ library. * General:: Aims, objectives, and limitations of the GNU C++ library * Conventions:: Stylistic conventions * OK:: Support for representation invariants * Proto:: Introduction to container class prototypes * Pix:: Pseudo-indexes * Representations:: How variable-sized objects are represented * Headers:: Header files and other support for interfacing C++ to C * Builtin:: Utility functions operating on builtin types * File:: File-based classes * Stream:: istreams and ostreams * Obstack:: Obstacks and their uses. * String:: String, SubString, and Regex classes. * Integer:: Multiple precision Integer class. * Rational:: Multiple precision Rational class * Complex:: Complex number class * Fix:: Fixed point proportion classes * Bits:: BitSet and BitString classes * Random:: Random number generators * Data:: SampleStatistic and related classes for data collection * Curses:: CursesWindow class * List:: Lisp-like List prototype * LinkList:: Singly and doubly linked list class prototypes * Vector:: Vector prototypes * Plex:: Plex (adjustable array) prototypes * Stack:: Stack prototypes * Queue:: Queue prototypes * Deque:: Double ended queue prototypes * PQ:: Heap (priority queue) class prototypes * Set:: Set class prototypes * Bag:: Bag class prototypes * Map:: Map (Associative array) prototypes * Gperf:: Perfect Hash Function Generator * Projects:: Things Still Left to do ;-D on ( Code + Comments = Program ) Pardo -- pardo@cs.washington.edu {rutgers,cornell,ucsd,ubc-cs,tektronix}!uw-beaver!june!pardo