C++ Truths

In my reading, I came across a cool, little technique in C++ which allows us to invoke a pre-method and a post-method automatically when a member method of the class is called. It makes use of so called "Double Application Of Smart Pointers" (see the second bullet). This technique might be useful to implement different popular things such as pre-conditions and post-conditions, the "Monitor Object" pattern (POSA2), pointcut models in AOP, the Decorator pattern (GOF) and also the Execute-Around-Method pattern.

I found it quite interesting to know that g++ compiler actually provides an option (-Weffc++) which enables warnings for constructs that violate guidelines in Effective C++!! From g++ manual (man g++) == Begin == Warn about violations of the following style guidelines from Scott Meyers’ Effective C++ book: * Item 11: Define a copy constructor and an assignment operator for classes with dynamically allocated memory. * Item 12: Prefer initialization to assignment in constructors. * Item 14: Make destructors virtual in base classes. * Item 15: Have "operator=" return a reference to *this. * Item 23: Don’t try to return a reference when you must return an object. Also warn about violations of the following style guidelines from Scott Meyers’ More Effective C++ book: * Item 6: Distinguish between prefix and postfix forms of increment and decrement operators. * Item 7: Never overload "&&", "││", or ",". When s...