What are some good C++ coding standards?
Thank you for reading this answer rather than just trying to set your own coding standards. But beware that some people on comp.lang.c++ are very sensitive on this issue. Nearly every software engineer has, at some point, been exploited by someone who used coding standards as a “power play.” Furthermore some attempts to set C++ coding standards have been made by those who didn’t know what they were talking about, so the standards end up being based on what was the state-of-the-art when the standards setters were writing code. Such impositions generate an attitude of mistrust for coding standards. Obviously anyone who asks this question wants to be trained so they don’t run off on their own ignorance, but nonetheless posting a question such as this one to comp.lang.c++ tends to generate more heat than light. For an excellent book on the subject, get Sutter and Alexandrescu, C++ Coding Standards, 220 pgs, Addison-Wesley, 2005, ISBN 0-321-11358-6. It provides 101 rules, guidelines and bes
