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C++ Libraries
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Coding Standards
This is an older version of Boost and was released in 2018. The current version is 1.89.0.
This documentation aims to use of the following naming and formatting conventions.
fixed width
font and is syntax-highlighted
in color, for example double.
teletype fixed-width font.
italics.
free_function();
that is, it is in code font and its name is
followed by () to indicate
that it is a free function.
class_template<>;
that is, it is in code font and its name is followed by <>
to indicate that it is a class template.
MACRO();
that is, it is uppercase in code font and its name is followed by () to indicate that it is a function-like
macro. Object-like macros appear without the trailing ().