Ray Lischner has been using C++ for more than a decade. He worked at Mentor Graphics when it was the first company to adopt C++ for a major commercial project. Since the early days, he has witnessed and participated in the advance of the cfront translator to native compilers to integrated development environments, and now to visual, component-based tools. Ray has taught C++ at Oregon State University, in an introductory CS course and in a more advanced programming projects course. He is the author of O'Reilly's Delphi in a Nutshell and other books. His most recent writing project was for Borland C++ Builder.

• 1. Language Basics Compilation Steps Tokens Comments Character Sets Alternative Tokens Trigraphs 2. Declarations Declarations and Definitions Scope Name Lookup Linkage Type Declarations Object Declarations Namespaces 3. Expressions Lvalues and Rvalues Type Conversions Constant Expressions Expression Evaluation Expression Rules 4. Statements Expression Statements Declarations Compound Statements Selections Loops Control Statements Handling Exceptions 5. Functions Function Declarations Function Definitions Function Overloading Operator Overloading The main Function 6. Classes Class Definitions Data Members Member Functions Inheritance Access Specifiers Friends Nested Types 7. Templates Overview of Templates Template Declarations Function Templates Class Tem plates Specialization Partial Specialization Instantiation Name Lookup Tricks with Templates Compiling Templates 8. Standard Library Overview of the Standard Library C Library Wrappers Wide and Multibyte Characters Traits and Policies Allocators Numerics 9. Input and Output Introduction to I/O Streams Text I/O Binary I/O Stream Buffers Manipulators Errors and Exceptions 10. Containers, Iterators, and Algorithms Containers Iterators Algorithms 11. Preprocessor Reference 12. Language Reference 13. Library Reference A. Compiler Extensions B. Projects.