C++ Coding Standards: 101 Rules, Guidelines, and Best Practices

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Programming isn't magic, so don't incant it: Avoid spelling literal constants like 42 or in code. They are not self-explanatory and complicate maintenance by adding...

Names add information and introduce a single point of maintenance; raw numbers duplicated throughout a program are anonymous and a maintenance hassle. Constants should be...

Example 1: Important domain-specific constants at namespace level. const size_t PAGE_SIZE = 8192,...

[Dewhurst03] §2 • [Kernighan99] §• [Stroustrup00] §4.8, §5.4...