When writing a library for general consumption, even the smallest details start to matter, if you do not want to surprise a user with some unexpected behavior.
Alisdair Meredith will share some of the lesser known corners and details of the language that shed light on the standard library design and implementation. In particular, many implementation details risk exposure when writing generic code (templates) which happens to be most of the standard library.
Other topics include why it is important that a type thrown as an exception never throws from its copy constructor, the reference-counted string type hidden in the standard library, and why these two topics are more related than might first appear!
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