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

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Programmers hate surprises: Overload operators only for good reason, and preserve natural semantics; if that's difficult, you might be misusing operator overloading....

Although anyone would agree (we hope) that one should not implement subtraction in an operator+ implementation, other cases can be subtle. For example, does your...

There are highly specialized libraries (e.g., parser generators and regular expression engines) that define domain-specific conventions for operators that are very different from their C++...

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