C++ coding standards : 101 rules, guidelines, and best practices

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 coding 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.

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?; and 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.