Clean C++
I want to make a short detour from my long series of posts about the C++ Core Guidelines. I read the excellent book “Clean C++” in the last few days and I cannot hesitate to write a review. Here is my review.
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C++ Core Guidelines: Rules for Expressions and Statements
There are many rules in the C++ Core Guidelines dealing with expressions and statements. To be precise, there are more than 50 rules about declarations, expressions, statements, and arithmetic expressions.
C++ Core Guidelines: Passing Smart Pointers
Passing smart pointers is a critical topic that is seldom addressed. This ends with the C++ core guidelines because they have six rules for passing std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr.
C++ Core Guidelines: Rules for Smart Pointers
There were a lot of C++ experts who said that smart pointers were the essential feature of C++11. Today, I will write about smart pointers in C++.
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C++ Core Guidelines: Rules for Allocating and Deallocating
The guidelines have six rules for explicit memory allocation and deallocation. Six! Maybe you are surprised because there is a simple rule in modern C++: don’t use new and delete. The story is not so simple.
C++ Core Guidelines: Rules about Resource Management
This and the following posts will probably be about the most critical concern in programming: resource management. The C++ Core Guidelines have rules for resource management in general but also rules for allocation and deallocation and smart pointers in particular. Today I will begin with the general rules of resource management.
C++ Core Guidelines: Rules for Enumerations
The section to enumerations has eight rules. Since C++11, we have scoped enumerations which overcome a lot of the drawbacks of classical enumerations.
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C++ Core Guidelines: Rules for Unions
A union is a particular data type where all members start at the same address. A union can hold only one type at a time; therefore, you can save memory. A tagged union is a union that keeps track of its types.