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

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const is your friend: Immutable values are easier to understand, track, and reason about, so prefer constants over variables wherever it is sensible and make...

Constants simplify code because you only have to look at where the constant is defined to know its value everywhere. Consider this code: void Fun( vector<int>&...

Example: Avoid const pass-by-value function parameters in function declarations. The following two declarations are exactly equivalent: void Fun( int x ); void Fun( const int x );...

[Allison98] §10• [Cline99] §14.• [Dewhurst03] §6, §31-32, §82 • [Keffer95] pp. • [Koenig97] §4 • [Lakos96] §9.1.6, §9.• [Meyers97] §21 • [Murray93] §• [Stroustrup00] §7.2,...