A.9. Summary

This appendix has only scratched the surface of the new language features introduced with the C++11 Standard, because we’ve only looked at those features that actively affect the usage of the Thread Library. Other new language features include static assertions, strongly typed enumerations, delegating constructors, Unicode support, template aliases, and a new uniform initialization sequence, along with a host of smaller changes. Describing all the new features in detail is outside the scope of this book; it would probably require a book in itself. The best overview of the entire set of changes to the standard at the time of writing is probably Bjarne Stroustrup’s C++11 FAQ,^[1] though popular C++ reference books will be revised to cover it in due course.

^[1] http://www.research.att.com/~bs/C++0xFAQ.html

Hopefully the brief introduction to the new features covered in this appendix has provided enough depth to show how they relate to the Thread Library and to enable you to write and understand multithreaded code that uses these new features. Although this appendix should provide enough depth for simple uses of the features covered, this is still only a brief introduction and not a complete reference or tutorial for the use of these features. If you intend to make extensive use of them, I recommend acquiring such a reference or tutorial in order to gain the most benefit from them.