Implementing Patterns and Idioms

The recipes included in this chapter are as follows:

• Avoiding repetitive if...else statements in factory patterns
• Implementing the pimpl idiom
• Implementing the named parameter idiom
• Separating interfaces from implementations with the non-virtual interface idiom
• Handling friendship with the attorney-client idiom
• Static polymorphism with the curiously recurring template pattern
• Implementing a thread-safe singleton