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C++ Coding Standard Specification Document Status Sheet Version/Issue: 1.1/5 Document Status Sheet Table 2 Document Status Sheet Title: ID: C++ Coding Standard Specification CERN-UCO/1999/207 Version Issue Date Reason for change 1.0 0 5.3.1999 Release to the Review Board for review 1.1 1 4.8.1999 First public release 1.1 2 13.8.1999 Changed the item identifiers in paragraph 3.8 1.1 3 17.8.1999 Corrected title of item CB1 1.1 4 20.10.1999 Added CERN write-up reference on the front page 1.1 5 5.1.2000 Added missing “int” in item CA5. Changed SPIDER to Project Support Team. New e-mail address: Pst@cern.ch page iv FINAL
C++ Coding Standard Specification Table of Contents Version/Issue: 1.1/5 Table of Contents Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii Document Control Sheet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii Document Status Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1.2 Intended Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1.3 Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1.4 Evolution and updating responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 1.5 Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 1.5.1 Naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 1.5.2 Coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 1.5.3 Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 1.5.4 Information provided for the items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 1.6 Organization of this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 1.7 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 1.8 Definitions and Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 2 Naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.1 Naming of files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 2.2 Meaningful Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 2.3 Illegal Naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 2.4 Naming Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 3 Coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.1 Organizing the Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.2 Control Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3.3 Object Life Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.3.1 Initialization of Variables and Constants . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.3.2 Constructor Initializer Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.3.3 Copying of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.4 Conversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3.5 The Class Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3.5.1 Inline Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.5.2 Argument Passing and Return Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.5.3 const Correctness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.5.4 Overloading and Default Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3.6 new and delete . . . . . . . . . . 23 FINAL page v
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