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Preface

Organizational and Policy Issues

Design Style

Coding Style

Functions and Operators

Class Design and Inheritance

Construction, Destruction, and Copying

Ch. 47. Define and initialize member variables in the same order

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Discussion

References

Ch. 48. Prefer initialization to assignment in constructors

Ch. 49. Avoid calling virtual functions in constructors and destructors

Ch. 50. Make base class destructors public and virtual, or protected and nonvirtual

Ch. 51. Destructors, deallocation, and swap never fail

Ch. 52. Copy and destroy consistently

Ch. 53. Explicitly enable or disable copying

Ch. 54. Avoid slicing. Consider Clone instead of copying in base classes

Ch. 55. Prefer the canonical form of assignment

Ch. 56. Whenever it makes sense, provide a no-fail swap (and provide it correctly)

Namespaces and Modules

Templates and Genericity

Error Handling and Exceptions

Summary

Agree with your compiler: Member variables are always initialized in the order they are declared in the class definition; the order in which you write them in the constructor initialization list is ignored. Make sure the constructor code doesn’t confusingly specify a different order.

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