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Title: Good, but not as essential as "effective C++"
Review: This is a good book with covers 35 more guidelines for improving your programs. The book is actually longer than the book "More effective C++" because the items being discussed are more complex.This book takes a different approach to "Effective C++" -- while "Effective C++" focusses on good-style guidelines, this book has a wider agenda, for example it explains a bunch of idioms (such as multiplke dispatch, smart pointers, reference counting, and the singleton pattern).The book is a solid followup to "Effective C++", but is probably not as essential as that book.
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