Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development

About the C++ Style in This Book

While I have extensive experience on C++ systems of all sizes, ranging from small to extremely large, I don’t consider myself a language expert. I’ve read the important books by Meyers and Sutter, plus a few more. I know how to make C++ work for me and how to make the resulting code expressive and maintainable. I’m aware of most of the esoteric corners of the language but purposefully avoid solutions requiring them. My definition for ​ clever​ in the context of this book is “difficult to maintain.” I’ll steer you in a better direction.

My C++ style is very object-oriented (no doubt because of a lot of programming in Smalltalk, Java, and C#). I prefer that most code ends up scoped to a class. Most of the examples ...