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

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Don't put off 'til run time what you can do at build time: Prefer to write code that uses the compiler to check for invariants...

The C++ language offers many opportunities to "accelerate" error detection by pushing it to compilation time. Exploiting these static checking capabilities offers you many advantages,...

There are several instances in which you can replace run-time checks with compile-time checks. Example 1: Compile-time Boolean conditions. If you are testing for compile-time Boolean...

Some conditions cannot be checked at compile time and require run-time checks. For these, prefer to use assertions to detect internal programming errors (see Item...

[Alexandrescu01] §3 • [Boost] • [Meyers97] §46 • [Stroustrup00] §2.• [Sutter02] §4 • [Sutter04] §2, §19...