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

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• Authors and experts Sutter and Alexandrescu distill the experiences of the C++ community into a set of coding standards intended to improve quality, reduce time-to-market (and time wasted), and simplify maintenance. They describe what to standardize; how to design and code for more efficiency; ways to make best use of functions and operators, class design and inheritance; how to make construction, destruction and copying more efficient; when to use namespaces, modules, templates, and genericity; how to handle errors and exceptions, containers, and algorithms; and how to manage type safety. Annotation ?2004 Book News, Inc.
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• Provides information on C++ programming, covering such topics as coding style, operators, copying, namespaces, templates, exceptions, and STL containers and algorithms.
• Consistent, high-quality coding standards improve software quality, reduce time-to-market, promote teamwork, eliminate time wasted on inconsequential matters, and simplify maintenance. Now, two of the world's most respected C++ experts distill the rich collective experience of the global C++ community into a set of coding standards that every developer and development team can understand and use as a basis for their own standards.

  The authors cover virtually every facet of C++ programming: design and coding style, functions, operators, class design, inheritance, construction/destruction, copying, assignment, namespaces, modules, templates, genericity, exceptions, STL containers and algorithms, and more.

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  Each standard is described concisely, with practical examples. From type definition to error handling, this book presents C++ best practices, including some that have only recently been identified and standardized--techniques you may not know even if you've used C++ for years. Along the way, you'll find answers to questions like

  What's worth standardizing--and what isn't? What are the best ways to code for scalability? What are the elements of a rational error handling policy? How (and why) do you avoid unnecessary initialization, cyclic, and definitional dependencies? When (and how) should you use static and dynamic polymorphism together? How do you practice "safe" overriding? When should you provide a no-fail swap? Why and how should you prevent exceptions from propagating across module boundaries? Why shouldn't you write namespace declarations or directives in a header file? Why should you use STL vector and string instead of arrays? How do you choose the right STL search or sort algorithm? What rules should you follow to ensure type-safe code? Whether you're working alone or with others, C++ Coding Standards will help you write cleaner code--and write it faster, with fewer hassles and less frustration.

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