C++ In Action: Techniques

Introduction

Code Review 1: The Cleanup

• Improving Code Grouping
• Decoupling the Output
• Fighting Devensive Programming
• A Case of Paranoid Programming
• Fringes
• Improving Communication Between Classes
• Correcting Design Flaws

Code Review 2: Hiding Implementation Details

• Using Embedded Classes
• Hiding Constants in Enumerations
• Hiding Constants in Local Variables

Code Review 3: Sharing

• Isolating Global Parameters
• Testing Boundary Conditions
• Code Reuse through Templates

Code Review 4: Removing Limitations

• Dynamic Array
• Separating Functionality into New Classes

Code Review 5: Resource Management

• Exceptions
• Stack Unwinding
• Resources
• Auto Pointers
• Auto Vectors

Code Review 6: Making Use of Standard Template Library

• Associative Arrays
• Reference Counting and Copy-on-Write
• Exploring Streams

Code Review 7: Serialization and Deserialization

• The Calculator Object
• Command Parser
• Serialization and Deserialization
• In-memory (De-) Serialization
• Multiple Inheritance
• Transactions

Overloading operator new

• Class-specific new
• Global new