Table of Contents

• They're just too dangerous
• still, you need a sharp knife to cut it
  • virtual (virtual+dynamic) data items
  • avoiding over-indulgence of random access
  • a streamlined determinant
• precision-targeted pointers
  • streams
  • STL iterators
  • function pointers
  • one-purpose pointer

• encapsulation vs. referencing
• transient (anonymous) objects/classes
• nested functions

• don't return a big object
• lazy object as a promise

• container, STL, and natural iterators
• shortcomings of unnatural iterators
• two ways of handling a collection: iteratee vs. iterator
• natural iteration with closures

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