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

10. SummaryDiscussionExceptionsReferences...

Sharing causes contention: Avoid shared data, especially global data. Shared data increases coupling, which reduces maintainability and often performance....

This statement is more general than Item 18's specific treatment. Avoid data with external linkage at namespace scope or as static class members. These complicate program...

The program-wide facilities cin, cout , and cerr are special and are implemented specially. A factory has to maintain a registry of what function to...

[Cargill92] pp. 126.136, • [Dewhurst03] §3 • [Lakos96] §2.• [McConnell93] §5.• [Stroustrup00] §C.• [Sutter00] §47 • [Sutter02] §16, Appendix A • [Sutter04c] • [SuttHysl03]...