CeePlusPlusIdioms

Idioms common to CeePlusPlus:

• ArgumentDependentNameLookup (KoenigLookup)
• AnonymousNamespace
• CompareConstantsFromTheLeft
• ConstCorrectness
• FunctionObjects
• PimplIdiom
• ResourceAcquisitionIsInitialization
• SmartPointers
• StaticPolymorphism
• StaticReflection
• StlStyle
• StreamsAsSequences
• SubstitutionFailureIsNotAnError
• UsingTemplates
• VirtualParameterPassing

External Links:

• More C++ Idioms
  • http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/More_C++_Idioms
• www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~np2/patterns/cplusplus/. (BrokenLink 20080321)

There's a whole bunch written about on SelfDocumentingCode. Both as the topics of certain pages and in the actual examples sections.

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Note: Some joker added CompareConstantsFromTheLeft to the list above, despite overwhelming empirical evidence that this is not a common C++ idiom. PersonalChoiceElevatedToMoralImperative.

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See: CeeIdioms, AdvancedCeePlusPlusProgrammingStylesAndIdioms

CategoryCpp, CategoryIdiom