Question

If I want to master C++, must I memorize http://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall11/CSCI-GA.2110-003/documents/c++2003std.pdf ?

Answer 1

I think there's a new C++ standard out anyway :-P

Answer 2

Standards documents are usually mostly arcane subtleties. If you're going to be writing compilers, you'd need to be ( more is better ) familiar with all that stuff. I'm learning C++, and comprehensive standards documents are not in my plans, FWIW.

Answer 3

yes you must learn it and even when someone wake up u at 3AM and ask contents of any page number you must repeat exactly as it written if you fail to do then you can't program in c++

Answer 4

I say that you don't need to memorize the standard. You *do* need to study each idea in there before you use it, and maybe write some little test driver programs to be sure that you understand an idea. After enough work like this, you'll know all that stuff, and you didn't *memorize* it.