C++11 by Code

To learn new C++11 features, I made a few minimal working examples (MWE) to cover each one (and only one) C++11 highlight.

Compilation

Compilation is done via CMake. If you've never used it (which you should!), this gets you started from the cloned repository:

mkdir bin
cd bin
cmake ../
make

Individual highlights / files can be compiled with make highlight, so, e.g., make lambda.

Contributing

Feel free to create a pull request or drop some comments in the issues section. This repository surely does not highlight all C++11 feature, just the ones I found most interesting and wanted to know more about.

List of MWE of C++11 Features

• auto.cpp – Highlights the new auto specifier to automatically deduce the type of an object.
• rangeFor.cpp – The new, handy for loops.
• beginend.cpp — The new begin() and end() syntax.
• initialization.cpp — The new universal initialization syntax with curly braces. Also: std::initializer_list for initializing of custom classes.
• lambda.cpp — Lambda functions.
• array.cpp — New std::array, a modern replacement for C-style arrays, for arrays of constant size.
• smartpointers.cpp — All the new smart pointer glory of C++11; unique_ptr, shared_ptr, weak_ptr. Also, a quick reference to nullptr.
• classes.cpp — New class-annotating keywords override, final, default, delete.
• constexpr-static_assert.cpp – Compile-time resolved constant expressions with constexpr and assertion.
• constructors.cpp – Constructor delegation.