Preface

C++ has indeed become too "expert friendly" -- Bjarne Stroustrup, The Problem with Programming, Technology Review, Nov 2006.

Stroustrup's saying is true because experts are intimately familiar with the idioms in the language. With the increase in the idioms a programmer understands, the language becomes friendlier to him or her. The objective of this open content book is to present modern C++ idioms to programmers who have moderate level of familiarity with C++, and help elevate their knowledge so that C++ feels much friendlier to them. It is designed to be an exhaustive catalog of reusable idioms that expert C++ programmers often use while programming or designing using C++. This is an effort to capture their techniques and vocabulary into a single work. This book describes the idioms in a regular format: Name-Intent-Motivation-Solution-References, which is succinct and helps speed learning. By their nature, idioms tend to have appeared in the C++ community and in published work many times. An effort has been made to refer to the original source(s) where possible; if you find a reference incomplete or incorrect, please feel free to suggest or make improvements.

The world is invited to catalog reusable pieces of C++ knowledge (similar to the book on design patterns by GoF). The goal here is to first build an exhaustive catalog of modern C++ idioms and later evolve it into an idiom language, just like a pattern language. Finally, the contents of this book can be redistributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

Aimed toward: Anyone with an intermediate level of knowledge in C++ and supported language paradigms

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Table of Contents

Note: synonyms for each idiom are listed in parentheses.

  1. Acyclic Visitor Pattern TODO
  2. Address Of
  3. Algebraic Hierarchy
  4. Attach by Initialization
  5. Attorney-Client
  6. Barton-Nackman trick
  7. Base-from-Member
  8. Boost mutant
  9. Calling Virtuals During Initialization
  10. Capability Query
  11. Checked delete
  12. Clear-and-minimize
  13. Coercion by Member Template
  14. Computational Constructor
  15. Concrete Data Type
  16. Construct On First Use
  17. Construction Tracker
  18. Copy-and-swap
  19. Copy-on-write
  20. Intrusive reference counting (Counted Body)
  21. Covariant Return Types TODO
  22. Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (CRTP)
  23. Deprecate and Delete TODO
  24. Empty Base Optimization (EBO)
  25. enable-if
  26. Erase-Remove
  27. Execute-Around Pointer
  28. Exploding Return Type TODO
  29. Export Guard Macro TODO
  30. Expression-template
  31. Fake Vtable TODO
  32. Fast Pimpl TODO
  33. Final Class
  34. Free Function Allocators
  35. Function Object TODO
  36. Function Poisoning TODO
  37. Generic Container Idioms
  38. Hierarchy Generation TODO
  39. Implicit conversions TODO
  40. Include Guard Macro
  41. Inline Guard Macro
  42. Inner Class
  43. Int-To-Type
  44. Interface Class
  45. Iterator Pair
  46. Making New Friends
  47. Metafunction
  48. Move Constructor
  49. Multi-statement Macro
  50. Member Detector
  51. Named Constructor
  52. Named External Argument TODO
  53. Named Loop (labeled loop)
  54. Named Parameter
  55. Named Template Parameters TODO
  56. Nifty Counter (Schwarz Counter)
  57. Non-copyable Mixin
  58. Non-member Non-friend Function TODO
  59. Non-throwing swap
  60. Non-Virtual Interface (NVI, Public Overloaded Non-Virtuals Call Protected Non-Overloaded Virtuals)
  61. nullptr
  62. Object Generator
  63. Object Template TODO
  64. Parameterized Base Class (Parameterized Inheritance)
  65. Pimpl (Handle Body, Compilation Firewall, Cheshire Cat)
  66. Policy Clone (Metafunction wrapper)
  67. Policy-based Design TODO
  68. Polymorphic Exception
  69. Polymorphic Value Types TODO
  70. Recursive Type Composition TODO
  71. Requiring or Prohibiting Heap-based Objects
  72. Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII, Execute-Around Object, Scoped Locking)
  73. Resource Return
  74. Return Type Resolver
  75. Runtime Static Initialization Order Idioms
  76. Safe bool
  77. Scope Guard
  78. Substitution Failure Is Not An Error (SFINAE)
  79. Shortening Long Template Names TODO
  80. Shrink-to-fit
  81. Small Object Optimization TODO
  82. Smart Pointer
  83. Storage Class Tracker TODO
  84. Tag Dispatching TODO
  85. Temporary Base Class
  86. Temporary Proxy
  87. The result_of technique TODO
  88. Thin Template
  89. Thread-Safe Interface TODO
  90. Traits TODO
  91. Type Erasure
  92. Type Generator (Templated Typedef)
  93. Type Safe Enum
  94. Type Selection
  95. Virtual Constructor
  96. Virtual Friend Function

Advanced idioms

These are some more advanced C++ idioms.

  1. Envelope Letter TODO


Deprecated idioms

  1. Const auto_ptr






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