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Custom Types

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One of the key design goals for C++ was that you should be able to custom define brand new types that look and act similar to the built-in types. Do you need tri-state logic? Write your own tribool type. Need arbitrary-precision arithmetic? Write your own bigint type. This exploration introduces some of the language features that let you define custom types. Subsequent explorations delve deeper into these topics.

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© 2009 Ray Lischner

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(2009). Custom Types. In: Exploring C++. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0352-0_27

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