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

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Overcome the language's separation anxiety: C++ makes private members inaccessible, but not invisible. Where the benefits warrant it, consider making private members truly invisible using...

When it makes sense to create a "compiler firewall" that completely insulates calling code from a class's private parts, use the Pimpl idiom: Hide them...

Only add complexity, including Pimpls, when you know you benefit from the extra level of indirection. (See Items 6 and 8.)...

[Coplien92] §• [Dewhurst03] §8 • [Lakos96] §6.• [Meyers97] §34 • [Murray93] §• [Stroustrup94] §2.10, §24.• [Sutter00] §23, §• [Sutter02] §18, §22 • [Sutter04] §16-17...