| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Item 1 | Distinguish between pointers and references | 9 |
| Item 2 | Prefer C+++-style casts | 12 |
| Item 3 | Never treat arrays polymorphically | 16 |
| Item 4 | Avoid gratuitous default constructors | 19 |
| Item 5 | Be wary of user-defined conversion functions | 24 |
| Item 6 | Distinguish between prefix and postfix forms of increment and decrement operators | 31 |
| Item 7 | Never overload &&, [actual symbol not reproducible] | 35 |
| Item 8 | Understand the different meanings of new and delete | 38 |
| Item 9 | Use destructors to prevent resource leaks | 45 |
| Item 10 | Prevent resource leaks in constructors | 50 |
| Item 11 | Prevent exceptions from leaving destructors | 58 |
| Item 12 | Understand how throwing an exception differs from passing a parameter or calling a virtual function | 61 |
| Item 13 | Catch exceptions by reference | 68 |
| Item 14 | Use exception specifications judiciously | 72 |
| Item 15 | Understand the costs of exception handling | 78 |
| Item 16 | Remember the 80-20 rule | 82 |
| Item 17 | Consider using lazy evaluation | 85 |
| Item 18 | Amortize the cost of expected computations | 93 |
| Item 19 | Understand the origin of temporary objects | 98 |
| Item 20 | Facilitate the return value optimization | 101 |
| Item 21 | Overload to avoid implicit type conversions | 105 |
| Item 22 | Consider using op= instead of stand-alone op | 107 |
| Item 23 | Consider alternative libraries | 110 |
| Item 24 | Understand the costs of virtual functions, multiple inheritance, virtual base classes, and RTTI | 113 |
| Item 25 | Virtualizing constructors and non-member functions | 123 |
| Item 26 | Limiting the number of objects of a class | 130 |
| Item 27 | Requiring or prohibiting heap-based objects | 145 |
| Item 28 | Smart pointers | 159 |
| Item 29 | Reference counting | 183 |
| Item 30 | Proxy classes | 213 |
| Item 31 | Making functions virtual with respect to more than one object | 228 |
| Item 32 | Program in the future tense | 252 |
| Item 33 | Make non-leaf classes abstract | 258 |
| Item 34 | Understand how to combine C++ and C in the same program | 270 |
| Item 35 | Familiarize yourself with the language standard | 277 |
| Recommended Reading | 285 |
| An autoöptr Implementation | 291 |
| General Index | 295 |
| Index of Example Classes, Functions, and Templates | 313 |
Format: Textbook Paperback, 318 pages
