C++ Coding Conventions and Guidelines

NEEDS SOME UPDATING FOR C++17.

Table of contents

• 0. Introduction
• 1. The big picture
• 2. Code formatting
• 3. Comments
• 4. Naming
• 5. Control structures
• 6. Classes
• 7. Functions
• 8. Variables
• 9. Constants/Literals
• 10. Enumerations
• 11. Error handling
• 12. Macros
• 13. Namespaces
• 14. Memory management
• 15. Casting
• 16. STL
• 17. Global state
• 18. File organization / Includes
• 19. Miscellaneous
• 20. Discouraged functionality
• 21. Compiler warnings
• 22. External libraries

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Maintainer: Michael Hofmann (kmhofmann at gmail.com)