Finally feeling good enough to make an entry on this.

References are a vital tool for resolving many problems in programming. The author does a decent job of covering the subject but references in C++ are essentially the same as they are in C.

Of more interest the chapter on advanced functions covers something I never knew about C++. These are virtually all related to working with objects. The overloading (or changing the behavior) of operators (such as the minus sign and the plus sign) is a neat feature. Though I realized that this a logical extension of the language, since there is an occasional necessity to use those operators with programmer created objects. It’s a long chapter but in the hands of a dedicated reader, it would yield – and probably in less than an hour.