Designed for use with C++ Release 2.0, the newest release of the language. Stroustrup, the language's developer, offers annotations that explain its features and examples of how they can be used.
The reference manual is clear and logical, as befits an ANSI standard Base Document (which this is). But the annotations, which were pruned from the standard, are worth at least half the cost of the book. Where the reference and standard tell you what to do, the annotations tell you why, and what not to do, and how to dig yourself out when you do do.
ehhh, kind of out of date and less detailed than i'd hoped for. if you've memorized the various fractured c++ FAQs, along with the Meyers Effective C++ titles, you've actually seen everything important in here referenced and expanded upon elsewhere. --- doing a lot more c++ these days, and trying to build up a mastery of it to rival my mastery of c...if that is indeed possible.