Acknowledgments

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This book presents ideas, concepts, solutions, and examples from many sources. We'd like to thank all the people and companies who helped and supported us during the past few years .

First, we'd like to thank all the reviewers and everyone else who gave us their opinion on early manuscripts. These people endow the book with a quality it would never have had without their input. The reviewers for this book were Kyle Blaney, Thomas Gschwind, Dennis Mancl, Patrick Mc Killen, and Jan Christiaan van Winkel. Special thanks to Dietmar K ¼hl, who meticulously reviewed and edited the whole book. His feedback was an incredible contribution to the quality of this book.

We'd also like to thank all the people and companies who gave us the opportunity to test our examples on different platforms with different compilers. Many thanks to the Edison Design Group for their great compiler and their support. It was a big help during the standardization process and the writing of this book. Many thanks also go to all the developers of the free GNU and egcs compilers (Jason Merrill was especially responsive ), and to Microsoft for an evaluation version of Visual C++ (Jonathan Caves, Herb Sutter, and Jason Shirk were our contacts there).

Much of the existing "C++ wisdom" was collectively created by the online C++ community. Most of it comes from the moderated Usenet groups comp.lang.c++.moderated and comp.std.c++ . We are therefore especially indebted to the active moderators of those groups, who keep the discussions useful and constructive. We also much appreciate all those who over the years have taken the time to describe and explain their ideas for us all to share.

The Addison-Wesley team did another great job. We are most indebted to Debbie Lafferty (our editor) for her gentle prodding, good advice, and relentless hard work in support of this book. Thanks also go to Tyrrell Albaugh, Bunny Ames, Melanie Buck, Jacquelyn Doucette, Chanda Leary-Coutu, Catherine Ohala, and Marty Rabinowitz. We're grateful as well to Marina Lang, who first sponsored this book within Addison-Wesley. Susan Winer contributed an early round of editing that helped shape our later work.

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