After skipping an installment of "Generic < Programming > " (it's naive, I know, to think that grad school asks for anything less than 100 percent of one's time), there has been an embarrassment of riches as far as topic candidates for this article. One topic candidate was a discussion of constructors; in particular, forwarding constructors, handling exceptions, and two-stage object construction. One other topic candidate—and another glimpse into the Yaslan-der technology—was creating containers (such as lists, vectors, or maps) of incomplete types, something that is possible with the help of an interesting set of tricks, but not guaranteed by the standard containers.
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