Effective C++ Third Edition
Material type: TextPublication details: New York: Addison-Wesley: 2008Edition: 3EISBN:- 9780321334879
- Effective C++ Third Edition 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
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"Every C++ professional needs a copy of Effective C++. It is an absolute must-read for anyone thinking of doing serious C++ development. If you've never read Effective C++ and you think you know everything about C++, think again."
-- Steve Schirripa, Software Engineer, Google "C++ and the C++ community have grown up in the last fifteen years, and the third edition of Effective C++ reflects this. The clear and precise style of the book is evidence of Scott's deep insight and distinctive ability to impart knowledge."
-- Gerhard Kreuzer, Research and Development Engineer, Siemens AG
The first two editions of Effective C++ were embraced by hundreds of thousands of programmers worldwide. The reason is clear: Scott Meyers' practical approach to C++ describes the rules of thumb used by the experts -- the things they almost always do or almost always avoid doing -- to produce clear, correct, efficient code.
The book is organized around 55 specific guidelines, each of which describes a way to write better C++. Each is backed by concrete examples. For this third edition, more than half the content is new, including added chapters on managing resources and using templates. Topics from the second edition have been extensively revised to reflect modern design considerations, including exceptions, design patterns, and multithreading.
Important features of Effective C++ include:
Expert guidance on the design of effective classes, functions, templates, and inheritance hierarchies. Applications of new "TR1" standard library functionality, along with comparisons to existing standard library components. Insights into differences between C++ and other languages (e.g., Java, C#, C) that help developers from those languages assimilate "the C++ way" of doing things.Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. xv)
- Acknowledgments (p. xvii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Chapter 1 Accustoming Yourself to C++ (p. 11Item)
- 1 View C++ as a federation of languages (p. 11 Item)
- 2 Prefer consts, enums, and inlines to #defines (p. 13 Item)
- 3 Use const whenever possible (p. 17 Item)
- 4 Make sure that objects are initialized before theyre used (p. 26)
- Chapter 2 Constructors, Destructors, and Assignment Operators (p. 34Item)
- 5 Know what functions C++ silently writes and calls (p. 34 Item)
- 6 Explicitly disallow the use of compiler-generated functions you do not want (p. 37 Item)
- 7 Declare destructors virtual in polymorphic base classes (p. 40 Item)
- 8 Prevent exceptions from leaving destructors (p. 44 Item)
- 9 Never call virtual functions during construction or destruction (p. 48 Item)
- 10 Have assignment operators return a reference to *this (p. 52 Item)
- 11 Handle assignment to self in operator= (p. 53 Item)
- 12 Copy all parts of an object (p. 57)
- Chapter 3 Resource Management (p. 61Item)
- 13 Use objects to manage resources (p. 61 Item)
- 14 Think carefully about copying behavior in resource-managing classes (p. 66 Item)
- 15 Provide access to raw resources in resource-managing classes (p. 69 Item)
- 16 Use the same form in corresponding uses of new and delete (p. 73 Item)
- 17 Store newed objects in smart pointers in standalone statements (p. 75)
- Chapter 4 Designs and Declarations (p. 78Item)
- 18 Make interfaces easy to use correctly and hard to use incorrectly (p. 78 Item)
- 19 Treat class design as type design (p. 84 Item)
- 20 Prefer pass-by-reference-to-const to pass-by-value (p. 86 Item)
- 21 Dont try to return a reference when you must return an object (p. 90 Item)
- 22 Declare data members private (p. 94 Item)
- 23 Prefer non-member non-friend functions to member functions (p. 98 Item)
- 24 Declare non-member functions when type conversions should apply to all parameters (p. 102 Item)
- 25 Consider support for a non-throwing swap (p. 106)
- Chapter 5 Implementations (p. 113Item)
- 26 Postpone variable definitions as long as possible (p. 113 Item)
- 27 Minimize casting (p. 116 Item)
- 28 Avoid returning handles to object internals (p. 123 Item)
- 29 Strive for exception-safe code (p. 127 Item)
- 30 Understand the ins and outs of inlining (p. 134 Item)
- 31 Minimize compilation dependencies between files (p. 140)
- Chapter 6 Inheritance and Object-Oriented Design 149Item
- 32 Make sure public inheritance models is-a (p. 150 Item)
- 33 Avoid hiding inherited names (p. 156 Item)
- 34 Differentiate between inheritance of interface and inheritance of implementation (p. 161 Item)
- 35 Consider alternatives to virtual functions (p. 169 Item)
- 36 Never redefine an inherited non-virtual function (p. 178 Item)
- 37 Never redefine a functions inherited default parameter value (p. 180 Item)
- 38 Model has-a or is-implemented-in-terms-of through composition (p. 184 Item)
- 39 Use private inheritance judiciously (p. 187 Item)
- 40 Use multiple inheritance judiciously (p. 192)
- Chapter 7 Templates and Generic Programming 199Item
- 41 Understand implicit interfaces and compile-time polymorphism (p. 199 Item)
- 42 Understand the two meanings of typename (p. 203 Item)
- 43 Know how to access names in templatized base classes (p. 207 Item)
- 44 Factor parameter-independent code out of templates (p. 212 Item)
- 45 Use member function templates to accept all compatible types (p. 218 Item)
- 46 Define non-member functions inside templates when type conversions are desired (p. 222 Item)
- 47 Use traits classes for information about types (p. 226 Item)
- 48 Be aware of template metaprogramming (p. 233)
- Chapter 8 Customizing new and delete 239Item
- 49 Understand the behavior of the new-handler (p. 240 Item)
- 50 Understand when it makes sense to replace new and delete (p. 247 Item)
- 51 Adhere to convention when writing new and delete (p. 252 Item)
- 52 Write placement delete if you write placement new (p. 256)
- Chapter 9 Misc
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Scott Meyers is one of the world's foremost authorities on C++, providing training and consulting services to clients worldwide. He is the author of the best-selling Effective C++ series of books (Effective C++, More Effective C++, and Effective STL) and of the innovative Effective C++ CD. He is consulting editor for Addison Wesley's Effective Software Development Series and is a founding member of the Advisory Board for The C++ Source ( http://www.artima.com/cppsource ). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University. His web site is http://www.aristeia.com .