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The Annotated C++ Reference Manual by Margaret Ellis & Bjarne Stroustrup Recommended

ISBN: 0-201-51459-1       Publisher: Addison-Wesley       Pages: 450pp       Price: £29.95

Categories:   reference     advanced c++

Reviewed by Francis Glassborow in C Vu 3-3 (Mar 1991)

I like the way the material has been presented. Each chapter concludes with a commentary whose main purpose to help the reader to understand the inter- action between different aspects of the language and to appreciate the motivation behind some of the inclusions. These sections do not tell you how to use C++ but they do help in understanding programming directions worth pursuing.

The first part of each chapter consists of interlaced formal descriptions of different features of C++ and expansions and clarifications. Typography has been used sensibly to assist the reader in separating the essential elements from the clarifications. As well as being the definitive text on the current state of C++ this is also an excellent example of how such language documents should be presented. I wish that the formal document on ANSI C were as readable. If you need to know what constitutes C++ then you need to have a copy of this book on your shelf.

Stroustrup
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