Rainer Grimm has worked as a software architect, team lead, and instructor since 1999, and offered seminars on C++, Python, and proprietary software since 2002. He writes regularly on C++, Python, and Haskell, speaks at conferences on programming issues, and blogs weekly in English ([...]) and German ([...] Now an independent instructor, he offers seminars on modern C++ and Python. He has authored several books on modern C++, concurrency, and related topics.

List of selected C++ Core Guidelines xiii
List of figures xxiii
List of tables xxvii
Foreword xxix
Preface xxxi
Acknowledgments xxxvii
About the author xxxix

Part I: The Guidelines 1

Chapter 1: Introduction 3
Target readership 3
Aim 4
Non-aims 4
Enforcement 4
Structure 4
Major sections 5

Chapter 2: Philosophy 7

Chapter 3: Interfaces 15
The curse of non-const global variables 16
Dependency injection as a cure 18
Making good interfaces 20
Related rules 25

Chapter 4: Functions 27
Function definitions 28
Parameter passing: in and out 32
Parameter passing: ownership semantics 38
Value return semantics 42
Other functions 46
Related rules 52

Chapter 5: Classes and Class Hierarchies 53
Summary rules 54
Concrete types 58
Constructors, assignments, and destructors 59
Class hierarchies 98
Overloading and overloaded operators 117
Unions 126
Related rules 129

Chapter 6: Enumerations 131
General rules 131
Related rules 137

Chapter 7: Resource Management 139
General rules 140
Allocation and deallocation 145
Smart pointers 150
Related rules 164

Chapter 8: Expressions and Statements 165
General 166
Declarations 168
Expressions 186
Statements 199
Arithmetic 204
Related rules 210

Chapter 9: Performance 213
Wrong optimizations 214
Wrong assumptions 214
Enable optimization 218
Related rules 230

Chapter 10: Concurrency 231
General guidelines 232
Concurrency 245
Parallelism 266
Message passing 269
Lock-free programming 273
Related rules 277

Chapter 11: Error Handling 279
Design 281
Implementation 283
If you can't throw 288
Related rules 292

Chapter 12: Constants and Immutability 293
Use const 294
Use constexpr 298

Chapter 13: Templates and Generic Programming 301
Use 302
Interfaces 305
Definition 320
Hierarchies 330
Variadic templates 332
Metaprogramming 336
Other rules 362
Related rules 372

Chapter 14: C-Style Programming 375
Entire source code available 376
Entire source code not available 378

Chapter 15: Source Files 383
Interface and implementation files 384
Namespaces 391

Chapter 16: The Standard Library 397
Containers 398
Text 404
Input and output 411
Related rules 419

Part II: Supporting Sections 421

Chapter 17: Architectural Ideas 423

Chapter 18: Nonrules and Myths 427

Chapter 19: Profiles 437
Pro.typeType safety 438
Pro.boundsBounds safety 439
Pro.lifetimeLifetime safety 439

Chapter 20: Guidelines Support Library 441
Views 441
Ownership pointers 442
Assertions 443
Utilities 443