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

39. SummaryDiscussionExceptionsReferences...

In base classes with a high cost of change (particularly ones in libraries and frameworks): Prefer to make public functions nonvirtual. Prefer to make virtual...

Most of us have learned through bitter experience to make class members private by default unless we really need to expose them. That's just good...

NVI does not apply to destructors because of their special order of execution (see Item 50). NVI does not directly support covariant return types for callers....

[Allison98] §10 • [Dewhurst03] §72 • [Gamma95] • [Keffer95 pp. 6-7] • [Koenig97] §11 • [Sutter00] §19, §23 • [Sutter04] §18...