Cpp Coding Standards/DESIGN

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Design

General design rules.


Summary

NoCyclicDependencies

Avoid cyclic dependencies.

DependencyInversionPrinciple

Use the dependency inversion principle. Prefer to define functionality in abstract interfaces and to inherit from them. Avoid state in abstract classes.

NoPrematureGeneralization

As a rule of thumb, don't generalize before the second occurrence and no later than the third.

GlobalDataInit

Avoid cross module dependencies when initializing global data. Never let a global object's initialization depend on another global object in a different compilation unit.

AvoidGlobalData

Minimize the use of global data. For objects in global scope that are meant to be local to a class' implementation use an anonymous namespace.


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