Presents an introduction to garbage collection, presenting the subject in enough detail to show the various tradeoffs and advantages between various techniques and what goes on under the hood in a typical garbage collector.

Shows all choices for defining symbolic constants.

By B.M. Werther and D.M. Conway, Dept. Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne.

Presents a solution that is easily extensible and maintainable; what's more, it is particularly well suited to creating objects from XML data.

Bjarne Stroustrup provides insights on what will likely be added or changed in the upcoming version of the C++ standard.

Presents insights on choosing between symbolic constants as either enumeration constants or constant objects.