C++17 In Detail: Learn the Exciting Features of The New C++ Standard!

Table of Contents
About the Author
Technical Reviewer
	Additional Reviewers & Supporters
Revision History
Preface
About the Book
	Who This Book is For
	Overall Structure of the Book
	Reader Feedback
	Example Code
Part 1 - The Language Features
	Quick Start
	Fixes and Deprecation
		Removed Things
		Fixes
		Compiler support
	Language Clarification
		Stricter Expression Evaluation Order
		Guaranteed Copy Elision
		Dynamic Memory Allocation for Over-Aligned Data
		Exception Specifications as Part of the Type System
		Compiler Support
	General Language Features
		Structured Binding Declarations
		Init Statement for if and switch
		Inline Variables
		constexpr Lambda Expressions
		Nested Namespaces
		Compiler support
	Templates
		Template Argument Deduction for Class Templates
		Fold Expressions
		if constexpr
		Declaring Non-Type Template Parameters With auto
		Other Changes
		Compiler Support
	Standard Attributes
		Why Do We Need Attributes?
		Before C++11
		Attributes in C++11 and C++14
		C++17 additions
		Section Summary
		Compiler support
Part 2 - The Standard Library Changes
	std::optional
		Introduction
		std::optional Creation
		Returning std::optional
		Accessing The Stored Value
		std::optional Operations
		Examples of std::optional
		Performance & Memory Consideration
		Migration from boost::optional
		Special case: optional and optional
		Summary
		Compiler Support
	std::variant
		The Basics
		std::variant Creation
		Changing the Values
		Accessing the Stored Value
		Visitors for std::variant
		Other std::variant Operations
		Exception Safety Guarantees
		Performance & Memory Considerations
		Migration From boost::variant
		Examples of std::variant
		Wrap Up
		Compiler Support
	std::any
		The Basics
		std::any Creation
		Changing the Value
		Accessing The Stored Value
		Performance & Memory Considerations
		Migration from boost::any
		Examples of std::any
		Wrap Up
		Compiler Support
	std::string_view
		The Basics
		The std::basic_string_view Type
		std::string_view Creation
		Other Operations
		Risks Using string_view
		Initializing string Members from string_view
		Handling Non-Null Terminated Strings
		Performance & Memory Considerations
		Migration from boost::string_ref and boost::string_view
		Examples
		Wrap Up
	String Conversions
		Elementary String Conversions
		Converting From Characters to Numbers: from_chars
		Converting Numbers into Characters: to_chars
		The Benchmark
		Summary
		Compiler support
	Searchers & String Matching
		Overview of String Matching Algorithms
		New Algorithms Available in C++17
		Examples
		Summary
		Compiler support
	Filesystem
		Filesystem Overview
		Demo
		The Path Object
		The Directory Entry & Directory Iteration
		Supporting Functions
		Error Handling & File Races
		Examples
		Chapter Summary
		Compiler Support
	Parallel STL Algorithms
		Introduction
		Overview
		Execution Policies
		Algorithm Update
		New Algorithms
		Performance of Parallel Algorithms
		Examples
		Chapter Summary
		Compiler Support
	Other Changes In The Library
		std::byte
		Improvements for Maps and Sets
		Return Type of Emplace Methods
		Sampling Algorithms
		New Mathematical Functions
		Shared Pointers and Arrays
		Non-member size(), data() and empty()
		constexpr Additions to the Standard Library
		std::scoped_lock
		std::iterator Is Deprecated
		Polymorphic Allocator, pmr
		Compiler support
Part 3 - More Examples and Use Cases
	Refactoring with std::optional and std::variant
		The Use Case
		The Tuple Version
		A Separate Structure
		With std::optional
		With std::variant
		Wrap up
	Enforcing Code Contracts With [[nodiscard]]
		Introduction
		Where Can It Be Used?
		How to Ignore [[nodiscard]]
		Before C++17
		Summary
	Replacing enable_if with if constexpr - Factory with Variable Arguments
		The Problem
		Before C++17
		With if constexpr
		Summary
	How to Parallelise CSV Reader
		Introduction and Requirements
		The Serial Version
		Using Parallel Algorithms
		Wrap up & Discussion
Appendix A - Compiler Support
	GCC
	Clang
	VisualStudio - MSVC
	Compiler Support of C++17 Features
Appendix B - Resources and References