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Effective C++ 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs

Effective C++ Third Edition 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs

Table of Contents

Praise for Effective C++, Third Edition

Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Accustoming Yourself to C++

Item 1: View C++ as a federation of languages

Item 2: Prefer consts, enums, and inlines to #defines

Item 3: Use const whenever possible

Item 4: Make sure that objects are initialized before they're used

Chapter 2. Constructors, Destructors, and Assignment Operators

Item 5: Know what functions C++ silently writes and calls

Item 6: Explicitly disallow the use of compiler-generated functions you do not want

Item 7: Declare destructors virtual in polymorphic base classes

Item 8: Prevent exceptions from leaving destructors

Item 9: Never call virtual functions during construction or destruction

Item 10: Have assignment operators return a reference to *this

Item 11: Handle assignment to self in operator=

Item 12: Copy all parts of an object

Chapter 3. Resource Management

Item 13: Use objects to manage resources.

Item 14: Think carefully about copying behavior in resource-managing classes.

Item 15: Provide access to raw resources in resource-managing classes.

Item 16: Use the same form in corresponding uses of new and delete.

Item 17: Store newed objects in smart pointers in standalone statements.

Chapter 4. Designs and Declarations

Item 18: Make interfaces easy to use correctly and hard to use incorrectly

Item 19: Treat class design as type design

Item 20: Prefer pass-by-reference-to-const to pass-by-value

Item 21: Don't try to return a reference when you must return an object

Item 22: Declare data members private

Item 23: Prefer non-member non-friend functions to member functions

Item 24: Declare non-member functions when type conversions should apply to all parameters

Item 25: Consider support for a non-throwing swap

Chapter 5. Implementations

Item 26: Postpone variable definitions as long as possible.

Item 27: Minimize casting.

Item 28: Avoid returning "handles" to object internals.

Item29: Strive for exception-safe code.

Item 30: Understand the ins and outs of inlining.

Item31: Minimize compilation dependencies between files.

Chapter 6. Inheritance and Object-Oriented Design

Item 32: Make sure public inheritance models "is-a."

Item 33: Avoid hiding inherited names

Item 34: Differentiate between inheritance of interface and inheritance of implementation

Item 35: Consider alternatives to virtual functions

Item 36: Never redefine an inherited non-virtual function

Item 37: Never redefine a function's inherited default parameter value

Item 38: Model "has-a" or "is-implemented-in-terms-of" through composition

Item 39: Use private inheritance judiciously

Item 40: Use multiple inheritance judiciously

Chapter 7. Templates and Generic Programming

Item 41: Understand implicit interfaces and compile-time polymorphism

Item 42: Understand the two meanings of typename

Item 43: Know how to access names in templatized base classes

Item 44: Factor parameter-independent code out of templates

Item 45: Use member function templates to accept "all compatible types."

Item 46: Define non-member functions inside templates when type conversions are desired

Item 47: Use traits classes for information about types

Item 48: Be aware of template metaprogramming

Chapter 8. Customizing new and delete

Item 49: Understand the behavior of the new-handler

Item 50: Understand when it makes sense to replace new and delete

Item 51: Adhere to convention when writing new and delete

Item 52: Write placement delete if you write placement new

Chapter 9. Miscellany

Item 53: Pay attention to compiler warnings.

Item 54: Familiarize yourself with the standard library, including TR1

Item.55: Familiarize yourself with Boost.

Appendix A. Beyond Effective C++

Appendix B. Item Mappings Between Second and Third Editions

Index

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Bai, Yun
Barry, Dave, allusion to
Bartolucci, Guido
base classes
     copying
     duplication of data in
     lookup in, this-> and 2nd
     names hidden in derived classes
     polymorphic
     polymorphic, destructors and 2nd
     templatized 2nd
     virtual
basic guarantee, the
Battle of Hastings
Berck, Benjamin
bidirectional iterators
bidirectional_iterator_tag
binary upgradeability, inlining and
binding
    dynamic [See dynamic binding]
    static [See default parameters;static binding]
birds and penguins 2nd
bitwise const member functions 2nd
books
     C++ Programming Language, The
     C++ Templates
     Design Patterns
     Effective STL 2nd 3rd
     Exceptional C++ 2nd
     Exceptional C++ Style 2nd
     More Effective C++ 2nd 3rd
     More Exceptional C++ 2nd
     Satyricon
     Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep
Boost 2nd
     containers
     Conversion library
     correctness and testing support
     data structures
     function objects and higher-order programming utilities
     functionality not provided
     generic programming support
     Graph library
     inter-language support
     Lambda library
     math and numerics utilities
     memory management utilities
     MPL library 2nd
     noncopyable base class
     Pool library 2nd
     scoped_array 2nd 3rd
     shared_array
     shared_ptr implementation, costs
     smart pointers 2nd 3rd
         web page
     string and text utilities
     template metaprogramming support
     TR1 and 2nd 3rd 4th
     typelist support
     web site 2nd 3rd
boost, as synonym for std::tr1
Bosch, Derek
breakpoints, and inlining
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
bugs, reporting
built-in types 2nd
     efficiency and passing
     incompatibilities with