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Preface

Organizational and Policy Issues

Design Style

Coding Style

Functions and Operators

Ch. 25. Take parameters appropriately by value, (smart) pointer, or reference

Ch. 26. Preserve natural semantics for overloaded operators

Ch. 27. Prefer the canonical forms of arithmetic and assignment operators

Ch. 28. Prefer the canonical form of ++ and --. Prefer calling the prefix forms

Ch. 29. Consider overloading to avoid implicit type conversions

Ch. 30. Avoid overloading &&, ||, or , (comma)

Ch. 31. Don’t write code that depends on the order of evaluation of function arguments

Class Design and Inheritance

Construction, Destruction, and Copying

Namespaces and Modules

Templates and Genericity

Error Handling and Exceptions

Summary

If you a+b, also a+=b: When defining binary arithmetic operators, provide their assignment versions as well, and write to minimize duplication and maximize efficiency.

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