David Vandevoorde

If you delight in finding typographical and other errors in text and code, you'll love this book. If, on the other hand, you, like me, expect a difficult professional text to be thoroughly copy-edited by one or more competent professionals, then you will be increasingly infuriated as you wade through this book.

At times, it felt like every page contained at least one substantial error: a sentence that simply makes no sense, or has the wrong word, or in one place, is the duplicate of a long sentence in the preceding paragraph.

Arguably worse are the code samples that simply could never have been tested, or which would work fine but whose included comments are simply wrong.

It's not obvious that there are any competitors for this book in regard to the depth of the coverage of the subject matter, so if you really want to understand modern C++ templates you probably have no choice (at the moment) but will have to grit your teeth and go through this book. But don't expect to enjoy the experience if you care about the English language or are going to rely on the code samples.

[Just to be fair, the error rate in the code samples isn't high -- unlike the error rate in the text -- but it's not zero (as it should be) either.]… (más)