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Miscellaneous

Conversion

Polymorphic and lexical casts.

Author(s)
Dave Abrahams and Kevlin Henney
First Release
1.20.0
Standard
 
Categories
String and text processing, Miscellaneous
Lexical Cast

General literal text conversions, such as an int represented a string, or vice-versa, from Kevlin Henney.

Author(s)
Kevlin Henney
First Release
1.20.0
Standard
 
Categories
String and text processing, Miscellaneous
Optional

Discriminated-union wrapper for optional values.

Author(s)
Fernando Cacciola
First Release
1.30.0
Standard
 
Categories
Miscellaneous
Timer

Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes.

Author(s)
Beman Dawes
First Release
1.9.0
Standard
 
Categories
Miscellaneous
Utility

Class noncopyable plus checked_delete(), checked_array_delete(), next(), prior() function templates, plus base-from-member idiom.

Author(s)
Dave Abrahams and others
First Release
1.13.0
Standard
 
Categories
Algorithms, Function objects and higher-order programming, Memory, Patterns and Idioms, Miscellaneous
Value Initialized

Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.

Author(s)
Fernando Cacciola
First Release
1.9.0
Standard
 
Categories
Miscellaneous