Cpp Coding Standards/GEN
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General Coding
General advice for coding.
Summary
ConstCorrectness
Make every member function const that does not change the logical state of its class. Use “mutable” to distinguish logical from physical state.
Prefer constants over variables wherever possible.
RAII
Use the “Resource allocation is initialization” (RAII) idiom to manage resources.
Use smart pointers for objects on the heap.
AvoidDuplicateCode
Avoid and remove dupliate code. Duplicate code may be okay, if otherwise dependencies among so far unrelated modules would be created. Among constructors of the same class some code duplication is okay.
InitAll
Initialize all variables at declaration.
Every struct needs a constructor.
Preferably mention every data member, including the default constructed ones, in the constructor's initialization section.
OptimizeLater
Do not optimize before you really know there is a performance problem. Use inline sparingly. However do optimize in algorithm complexity.
ClearLocalData
Use a consistent way to distinguish member data, local variables and function parameters.
LocalConventions
When changing code in a module, follow local naming conventions.
MatchingDelete
When using new[], employ a matching delete[] statement.----
