By atul (27. November 2006, 11:47:00)
Item 42: Don’t give away your internals… ;-)
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Dear all

C++ Coding Standards by Herb  Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu have this important guideline…

Much of our code seems to violate this… ( I think we briefly discussed this ). I always thought this a major design concern in our code.

There is a lot of scope for removing feature envy too…

Here is the patch and a general idea….

— cheers atul

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By Peter Dimov (27. November 2006, 12:41:56)
Re: Item 42: Don’t give away your internals… ;-)
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Hi Atul, I happen to have a copy of C++ Coding Style and looked at Item 42. The summary says: “Don't volunteer too much: Avoid returning handles to internal data managed (more...)