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

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Love abstract art: Abstract interfaces help you focus on getting an abstraction right without muddling it with implementation or state management details. Prefer to design...

Prefer to define and inherit from abstract interfaces. An abstract interface is an abstract class made up entirely of (pure) virtual functions and having no...

Example: Backup program. In naïve designs, high-level components depend on low-level details. For example, an ill-designed backup program might have an archiving component that depends...

The empty base optimization is one instance when inheritance (preferably nonpublic) is used for purely optimization purposes. (But see Item 8.) It would appear that policy-based...

[Alexandrescu01] • [Cargill92] pp. 12-15, • [Cline99] §5.18-20, • [Lakos96] §6.• [Martin96a] • [Martin00] • [Meyers96] §33 • [Stroustrup00] §12.3-4, §23.4.3.2, §23.4.3.5, §24.2-3, §25.3,...