Creating cooked user-defined literals
Literals are constants of built-in types (numerical, Boolean, character, character string, and pointer) that cannot be altered in a program. The language defines a series of prefixes and suffixes to specify literals (and the prefix/suffix is actually part of the literal). C++11 allows us to create user-defined literals by defining functions called literal operators, which introduce suffixes for specifying literals. These work only with numerical character and character string types.
This opens the possibility of defining both standard literals in future versions and allows developers to create their own literals. In this recipe, we will learn how to create our own cooked literals.
Getting ready
User-defined literals can have two forms: raw and cooked. Raw literals are not processed by the compiler, whereas cooked literals are values processed by the compiler (examples include handling escape sequences in a character string or identifying...
