C++11 Overview
C++11 is the modern C++ standard published in 2011. This brought many major extensions and improvements to the existing language. It was approved by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on 12 August 2011 and replaced C++03.
C++11 was also known as C++0x. This is because, For the next revision, it was supposed that the next Standard after would be done by 2008, but since it was uncertain, it was named C++0x, where the x stood for either 8 or 9. Though planning shifted and it is now called C++11. So, C++0x was the name for the standard before it was published. Once it was finalized in 2011 it was named C++11.
Following are the major changes/additions of C++11 −
- Initializer lists
- Automatic type deduction
- Rvalue references and move constructors
- constexpr – Generalized constant expressions
- Modification to the definition of plain old data
- Uniform initialization
- Range-based for loop
- Lambda functions and expressions
- Alternative function syntax
- Explicit overrides and final
- A constant null pointer, nullptr
- Strongly typed enumerations
- Right angle bracket not being treated as an operator at appropriate places
- Variadic templates
- Multithreading memory model
- Added Hash tables to the STL
- Added Regular expressions to the Standard Library
- Added General-purpose smart pointers like shared_ptr, weak_ptr, etc.
And many more. You can get the complete list with examples at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B11.
Published on 28-Feb-2018 12:43:55
