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Boost 1.31.0 Library Documentation - Miscellaneous

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Timer

Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes.

Author(s)
Beman Dawes
First Release
1.9.0
Categories
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
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
Categories
Algorithms, Function objects and higher-order programming, Memory, Miscellaneous, Patterns and Idioms
Conversion

Polymorphic and lexical casts.

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

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

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

Discriminated-union wrapper for optional values.

Author(s)
Fernando Cacciola
First Release
1.30.0
Categories
Miscellaneous