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Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs, Third Edition

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Praise for Effective C++, Third Edition

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Ch. 1. Accustoming Yourself to C++

Ch. 2. Constructors, Destructors, and Assignment Operators

Ch. 3. Resource Management

Ch. 4. Designs and Declarations

Item 18: Make interfaces easy to use correctly and hard to use incorrectly

Item 19: Treat class design as type design

Item 20: Prefer pass-by-reference-to-const to pass-by-value

Item 21: Don't try to return a reference when you must return an object

Item 22: Declare data members private

Item 23: Prefer non-member non-friend functions to member functions

Item 24: Declare non-member functions when type conversions should apply to all parameters

Item 25: Consider support for a non-throwing swap

Ch. 5. Implementations

Ch. 6. Inheritance and Object-Oriented Design

Ch. 7. Templates and Generic Programming

Ch. 8. Customizing new and delete

Ch. 9. Miscellany

Appx. A. Beyond Effective C++

Appx. B. Item Mappings Between Second and Third Editions

Index

Item 23: Prefer non-member non-friend functions to member functions

Imagine a class for representing web browsers. Among the many functions such a class might offer are those to clear the cache of downloaded elements, clear the history of visited URLs, and remove all cookies from the system:

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