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

by Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu
October 2004
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
6h 22m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Class Design and Inheritance

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

Bjarne Stroustrup

What kinds of classes does your team prefer to design and build? Why?

Interestingly, most of the Items in this section are motivated primarily or exclusively by dependency management. For example, inheritance is the second-strongest relationship you can express in C++, second only to friend; it should come as no surprise, then, that it’s important to use such a powerful tool judiciously, correctly, and well.

In this section, we focus on the key issues in class design, from minimalism to abstraction, from composition to inheritance, from virtual to nonvirtual, from public to private, from ...

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