Title: Unclear presentation of concepts and code
Review: It lacks a clear presentation of the concepts behind the various language constructs. Often it explains indirectly, by supplying tons of (complicated) examples and personal opinions. Indeed, this is not a beginners book: You first need to understand C++ before understanding what should have been "The C++ Book"!Also, it does not contain a complete reference of STL, nor does it fully cover STL topics in the examples.The worst thing however, is the fact that all code is printed in a proportional font; which is especially bad for a language which uses a lot of punctuation. In this sense it's really unique (of all books I have seen about C, Java, Haskell, Lisp, Design Patterns, ..., it's the only one doing this). In addition, examples are sometimes badly formatted (probably to save space) making things even worse.But okay, if you already know C++ from better books ..., it does contain a lot of details not easily found together in another book.
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