Cpp Coding Standards/Principles
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Meta Rules
This topic contains high level rules - or more general guidelines - that are good advice, but may be more difficult to check or decide in some cases. Aspects of them may be implemented by many of the other standards rules.
Summary
KeepItSimple
Correctness, simplicity and clarity first.
MinimizeDependencies
Minimize dependencies.
HideInformation
Hide as much information as you can.
MinimizeChangeEffort
Design orthogonally. Every change of a single aspect should need a code change only in one location.
ConsistentErrorHandling
Establish a rational error handling policy for the OpenOffice.org in general.
FacilitateTesting
Write code such that unit tests are possible. For complex data structures provide possibilities to stream them out into a human understandable form.
