General links to C++11 and Qt

Note: as would be expected from those interested in hot new technology, the writers of most of these links demonstrate Silicon Valley levels of extreme optimism. Take this with a grain of salt. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Particular Features

Type Inference (auto)

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Range-based for loop

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Universal and General Initialization

Motivation: Member Initializers Mixed uniform initialization

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Lambda

Motivation: Lambda expressions for slots

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constexpr

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Override and final

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<algorithm>

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nullptr

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Deleted and default class members

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unique_ptr

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Drawbacks: unique_ptr is unable to be copied, and therefore cannot be used inside Qt classes. For example QVector<std::unique_ptr> is invalid, because QVector requires its members can be copied. This makes converting to unique_ptr arduous.

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Performance-related (rvalues)

http://thbecker.net/articles/rvalue_references/section_01.html

Move Constructors

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Reference Qualifiers

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Other C++11 features, less immediately useful

Extended Unions (already have QVariant)
New literal types (already have QString)
Threads (Qt/KDE provide threading support already)
shared_ptr (unique_ptr Qt already provides a
Local types (mostly for advanced template programming)
static_assert
variadic templates