Programming in C++, Rules and Recommendations

Programming in C++, Rules and Recommendations
By Mats Henricson and Erik Nyquist.
Original translation from Swedish by Joseph Supanich
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Terminology

3. General Recommendations

4. Source Code in Files

4.1. Structure of Code

4.2. Naming Files

4.3. Comments

4.4. Include Files

5. Assigning Names

6. Style

6.1. Classes

6.2. Functions

6.3. Compound Statements

6.4. Flow Control Statements

6.5. Pointers and References

6.6. Miscellaneous

7. Classes

7.1. Considerations Regarding Access Rights

7.2. Inline Functions

7.3. Friends

7.4. const Member Functions

7.5. Constructors and Destructors

7.6. Assignment Operators

7.7. Operator Overloading

7.8. Member Function Return Types

7.9. Inheritance

8. Class Templates

9. Functions

9.1. Function Arguments

9.2. Function Overloading

9.3. Formal Arguments

9.4. Return Types and Values

9.5. Inline Functions

9.6. Temporary Objects

9.7. General

10. Constants

11. Variables

12. Pointers and References

13. Type Conversions

14. Flow Control Structures

15. Expressions

16. Memory Allocation

17. Fault Handling

18. Portable Code

18.1. Data Abstraction

18.2. Sizes of Types

18.3. Type Conversions

18.4. Data Representation

18.5. Underflow/Overflow

18.6. Order of Execution

18.7. Temporary Objects

18.8. Pointer Arithmetic

19. References

20. Summary of Rules

21. Summary of Recommendations

22. Summary of Portability Recommendations