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Revised Jul 4, 2012

[4.27] What updates were made for the 08/03 release?

1 New FAQs:

• [4.27] What updates were made for the 08/03 release?
  (created)

10 Changed FAQs:

• [2.2] What happened to the one-click-download option?
  (disabled due to spam)
• [6.16] Will I sometimes use any so-called "evil" constructs?
  (changed "effect" to "affect" thanks to J.K. Lowden)
• [10.3] Can one constructor of a class call another constructor of the same class to initialize the this object? Updated!
  (fixed typo thanks to Charles Daniels)
• [13.10] How do I create a subscript operator for a Matrix class?
  (fixed a memory leak thanks to Paladin)
• [16.18] But the above Matrix class is specific to Fred! Isn't there a way to make it generic?
  (plugged a memory leak in the ctor)
• [16.22] How do I do simple reference counting?
  (fixed a typo thanks to Lee Graham)
• [29.5] What are the criteria for choosing between short / int / long data types?
  (changed "at least 2 bytes" to "at least 16 bits" (and fixed other similar bone-headed mistakes) thanks to Peter Nilsson)
• [36.11] How do I serialize objects that contain pointers to other objects, and those pointers form a graph that might have cycles or non-trivial joins?
  (fixed a spelling error)
• [39.3] Can I templatize the above functions so they work with other types?
  (fixed a bug (type_info<T>::name() → typeid(x).name()) thanks to Thomas Tutone)
• [39.8] What are the C++ scoping rules for for loops?
  (fixed typo thanks to Henrik Torkelund)