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

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Know what: Public inheritance allows a pointer or reference to the base class to actually refer to an object of some derived class, without destroying...

Despite two decades of object-oriented design knowledge, the purpose and practice of public inheritance are still frequently misunderstood, and many uses of inheritance are flawed. Public...

Policy classes and mixins add behavior by public inheritance, but this is not abusing public inheritance to model is-implemented-in-terms-of....

[Cargill92] pp. • [Cline99] §5.13, §7.01- • [Dewhurst03] §92 • [Liskov88] • [Meyers97] §35 • [Stroustrup00] §12.4.1, §23.4.3.1, §24.• [Sutter00] §22-24...