Research Catalog

Title

More effective C++ : 35 new ways to improve your programs and designs / Scott Meyers.

Author

Meyers, Scott (Scott Douglas)

Publication

Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., [1996], ©1996.

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Description

xv, 318 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Addison-Wesley professional computing series

Uniform Title

Addison-Wesley professional computing series.

Subject

• C++ (Computer program language)
• Object-oriented programming

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• Item 1. Distinguish between pointers and references -- Item 2. Prefer C+++-style casts -- Item 3. Never treat arrays polymorphically -- Item 4. Avoid gratuitous default constructors -- Item 5. Be wary of user-defined conversion functions -- Item 6. Distinguish between prefix and postfix forms of increment and decrement operators -- Item 7. Never overload &&, [actual symbol not reproducible] -- Item 8. Understand the different meanings of new and delete -- Item 9. Use destructors to prevent resource leaks -- Item 10. Prevent resource leaks in constructors -- Item 11. Prevent exceptions from leaving destructors -- Item 12. Understand how throwing an exception differs from passing a parameter or calling a virtual function -- Item 13. Catch exceptions by reference -- Item 14. Use exception specifications judiciously -- Item 15. Understand the costs of exception handling -- Item 16. Remember the 80-20 rule -- Item 17. Consider using lazy evaluation --
• Item 18. Amortize the cost of expected computations -- Item 19. Understand the origin of temporary objects -- Item 20. Facilitate the return value optimization -- Item 21. Overload to avoid implicit type conversions -- Item 22. Consider using op= instead of stand-alone op -- Item 23. Consider alternative libraries -- Item 24. Understand the costs of virtual functions, multiple inheritance, virtual base classes, and RTTI -- Item 25. Virtualizing constructors and non-member functions -- Item 26. Limiting the number of objects of a class -- Item 27. Requiring or prohibiting heap-based objects -- Item 28. Smart pointers -- Item 29. Reference counting -- Item 30. Proxy classes -- Item 31. Making functions virtual with respect to more than one object -- Item 32. Program in the future tense -- Item 33. Make non-leaf classes abstract -- Item 34. Understand how to combine C++ and C in the same program -- Item 35. Familiarize yourself with the language standard --
• An autop̲tr Implementation.

ISBN

020163371X (paperback : alk. paper)

LCCN

95047354

OCLC

ocm33863289

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries