Practical Object-Oriented Development in C++ and Java

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Known Bugs

Page xi

Change http://www.horstmann.com/Practicaloo.html to http://www.horstmann.com/PracticalOO.html

Page 24

Change "Writing the code to implement templates is not easy; we will cover the details in Chapter 14" to "Writing the code to implement templates is not easy; we will cover the details in Chapter 15"

Page 25

Change "For example, vector<double> a; defines an array of 10 floating-point numbers" to ""For example, vector<double> a(10); defines an array of 10 floating-point numbers""

Page 27

Change String s = "Hello, World"; to string s = "Hello, World"; and String filename to string filename (i.e. lowercase s)

Page 31 and 34

In the binom function, replace n- with n--.

Page 38

Change include <fstream> to #include <fstream>

Page 43

Change "The corresponding code in C will not compile." to "The corresponding code in C++ will not compile."

Page51

Change #define square(x) (x)*(x)) to #define square(x) ((x)*(x)) (that is, add a parenthesis)

Page 52

Change "We will define inline functions" to "We will not define inline functions"

Page 56 line 4 from bottom

Change "the C compiler " to "the C++ compiler"

Page 69 middle of page

Change ": date_date" to "date - date"

Page 88 Figure 5.4

Change receive greeting to receive message

Page 104 Caption for Figure 5.18

Replace "Booch diagram" with "UML diagram"

Page 147

Change

_topleft(min(p.x(),q.x()),min(p.y(),q.y())),
	_bottomright(max(p.x(),q.x()),max(p.y(),q.y()))

to

_topleft(min(p.x(),q.x()),max(p.y(),q.y())),
	_bottomright(max(p.x(),q.x()),min(p.y(),q.y()))

Page 154 and 159

Replace string _text with string _message. (This also should be changed in shapes.cpp in the companion code.)

Page 156 Figure 7.16

Replace _text with _message.

Page 333

Change : _buffer(g), ostream(&buffer) to : _buffer(g), ostream(&_buffer) (i.e. add _ before buffer)

Page 410

The text and figure give the impression that an auto_ptr that no longer owns the object is set to NULL. Sadly, that is not the case. It retains its old value, which quietly becomes a bad pointer when the new owner is destroyed.
Correction:

1. Change "the smart pointer pe contains only a NULL pointer" to "the smart pointer pe contains a pointer to a deleted memory block"
2. In the figure, add owns: true inside the first rectangle on the left labeled p and inside the fourth rectangle on the left labeled q
3. In the figure, change NULL to owns: false

Page 411

Remove the lines
const X& operator*() const
and
const X* operator->() const
It doesn't make sense to make this distinction for a const rc_ptr<X>. It would make sense to introduce a separate typerc_const_ptr<X> instead.

Back cover

Change "C++ Reports" to "C++ Report"

Wiley web site

The table of contents does not match the actual table of contents of the book. According to my editor: "I suspect the only way to make them match at this point is if both were revised."

Thanks to Stephen Arndt, J. Cross, Anders Erlander, Edward Fron, Paul Gallivan, Luke T. Gatchell, R. Kuramoto, Konstantin Laufer, Hai Le, Allen Walker and a number of anonymous contributors for their bug reports!

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