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Non-Ownership and Generic Programming and Regular types, oh my!

by Barry Revzin

From the article:

This post is about a specific collection of types in the C++ core language and standard library. I am not sure of a good way to name this collection, and some terms that come to mind come with their own baggage, so I’m going to for now group them together under an umbrella that is clearly widely unrelated to programming and call them Westie types (because, like my dog, they are awesome yet enigmatic).