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C++ Style Guide

• Use 2 spaces, not tabs, escaping the dependency over engineers' machine configuration, affecting how code looks to each individual.
• Use auto to only make the code safer or clearer, otherwise use explicit types.
• Don't use pointers, if you want to use them then use std::unique_ptr
• Minimize the usage of exceptions
• Use composition or interface inheritance instead of implementation inheritance

Examples

Interface Inheritance

class Animal {
    virtual void speak(); // (1)!
};

1. Ensures that the class is explicitly an abstract class, not possessing any implementations of the interfaces(functions).

References

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