January 2013
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 54m
English
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Chapter 22
Counting the Number of References
In This Chapter
- Using idioms as coding standards
- Counting references to dynamically allocated objects
This chapter contains something different from all the other chapters in this book: an idiom. In Chapter 6, I describe three categories of patterns based on the scope of the problems they tackle:
- Architectural patterns help you structure your whole solution architecture. I introduce some architectural patterns in Chapters 9 through 16.
- Design patterns help you solve individual design problems at the level of an object, component, or module. Chapters 17 through 22 contain design patterns.
- Idioms are language-specific patterns that help you overcome shortcomings in programming languages.
An idiom gives you insight into how to overcome limitations in a particular programming language, essentially telling you “tricks” for making the most of a language. It also can help you understand how to use the language and read programs written in it.
This chapter describes one idiom that I've found to be useful in many situations: Counted Pointer. This idiom helps you program in the C++ language, but the concept is applicable in other situations, too.
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