December 1995
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
8h 22m
English
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Contents
Item 1: Distinguish between pointers and references.
Item 2: Prefer C++-style casts.
Item 3: Never treat arrays polymorphically.
Item 4: Avoid gratuitous default constructors.
Item 5: Be wary of user-defined conversion functions.
Item 6: Distinguish between prefix and postfix forms of increment and decrement operators.
Item 7: Never overload &&, ||, or ,.
Item 8: Understand the different meanings of new and delete.
Item 9: Use destructors to prevent resource leaks.
Item 10: Prevent resource leaks in constructors.
Item 11: Prevent exceptions from leaving destructors.
Item 12: Understand how throwing an exception differs from passing a parameter or calling a virtual function.
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