why these errors?

[Barry Gold]

On 4/20/2016 6:53 AM, Jim Michaels wrote:
> haven't been able to afford the reference book yet. I avoid 
> stackoverflow.com because it CC licenses your code examples and 
> software. I can't have someone else licensing my code and copyrighting 
> my code to own it. I consider that stealing.

You can find the C++ specification online at
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4296.pdf

That's not quite official, it's the latest working draft, so it might 
have some features that haven't been implemented yet. But I have found 
those "drafts" good enough when I had a question about the details of C++.

Granted, slogging through the working drafts is hard work. It would be 
easier with a real book that presented things in a human-readable 
fashion.(*) For other languages (e.g., PHP, Javascript, Perl) I have 
liked the O'Reilly books named "Programming xxx" or "xxx The Definitive 
Guide" the best. They present the language in a way you can understand, 
and are useful both as learning tools and as reference works when you 
already know most of the language and need to look up details. But I 
don't see a simple "Programming C++" at the O'Reilly site, so I'm not 
sure what to recommend. Maybe _C++ In a Nutshell_ ($31.99 Ebook, $39.95 
paper) and/or _C++ Pocket Reference" for only $7.99 (EBook) or $9.99 
(dead trees edition)

(*) The spec, after all, is intended to tell compiler writers how they 
must (or in some cases may) implement the language. It is only 
secondarily aimed at users of the language.

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