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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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maintenance
     common base classes and
     delete and
managing resources [See resource management]
Manis, Vincent
Marin, Alex
math and numerics utilities, in Boost 2nd
mathematical functions, in TR1
mathematics, inheritance and
matrix operations, optimizing
Matthews, Leon
max, std, implementation of
Meadowbrooke, Chrysta
meaning
     of classes without virtual functions
     of composition
     of non-virtual functions
     of pass-by-value
     of private inheritance
     of public inheritance
     of pure virtual functions
     of references
     of simple virtual functions
measuring encapsulation
Meehan, Jim
member data [See data members]
member function templates 2nd
member functions
     bitwise const 2nd
     common design errors 2nd
     const 2nd
     duplication and 2nd
     encapsulation and
     implicitly generated 2nd 3rd
         disallowing 2nd
     logically const 2nd
     private
     protected
     vs. non-member functions 2nd
     vs. non-member non-friends 2nd
member initialization
     for const static integral members
     lists 2nd
         vs. assignment 2nd
     order
memory allocation
     arrays and 2nd
     error handling for 2nd
memory leaks, new expressions and
memory management
     functions, replacing 2nd
     multithreading and 2nd
     utilities, in Boost
metaprogramming [See template metaprogramming]
Meyers, Scott
     mailing list for
     web site for
mf, as identifier
Michaels, Laura
Mickelsen, Denise
minimizing compilation dependencies 2nd 3rd
Mittal, Nishant
mixed-mode arithmetic 2nd 3rd 4th
mixin-style inheritance
modeling is-implemented-in-terms-of 2nd
modifying function return values
Monty Python, allusion to
Moore, Vanessa
More Effective C++ 2nd 3rd
     compared to Effective C++
     contents of 2nd
More Exceptional C++ 2nd
Moroff, Hal
MPL library, in Boost 2nd
multiparadigm programming language, C++ as
multiple inheritance [See inheritance]
multithreading
     memory management routines and 2nd
     non-const static objects and
     treatment in this book
mutable 2nd
mutexes, RAII and 2nd