On 23 September 2013 16:47, James K. Lowden wrote: > > 7.1.6 is itself mutable, it turns out. My yellowed ARM, copyright > 1990, is considerably more relaxed on the question. (And considerably > easier to read. I don't know how anyone learns C++ these days, so > dense is the technical terminology.) The standard isn't meant to be a tutorial and noone should try to learn C++ from the standard. Stroustrup's 4th edition of The C++ Programming Language is much easier to read (but not all that much shorter) than the standard.
