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

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Focus on one thing at a time: Prefer to give each entity (variable, class, function, namespace, module, library) one well-defined responsibility. As an entity grows,...

A good business idea, they say, can be explained in one sentence. Similarly, each program entity should have one clear purpose. An entity with several disparate...

Example 1: realloc. In Standard C, realloc is an infamous example of bad design. It has to do too many things: allocate memory if passed...

[Henney02a] • [Henney02b] • [McConnell93] §• [Stroustrup00] §3.8, §4.9.4, §23.4.• [Sutter00] §10, §12, §19, §23 • [Sutter02] §1 • [Sutter04] §37-40...