What is this blog ?

This blogs aims to enlighten the reader about bad yet often seen pratices in C++, explainations on how it is bad and ways to avoid it.

You will occasionally see artcles about good pratices instead of bad ones, and sometimes strange-yet-interesting behavior.

Feel free to give opinion, advice, or precisions on these articles.

Who am I ?

I am Thomas Lourseyre, a C++ expert currently working at Thales, France, who has experience on embedded software, signal processing and user sofware.

Latest articles

• How to choose between a setter and a reference-getter?
• You shouldn’t assume accessors are fast
• How many languages should a (C++) expert speak?
• Should every variable be const by default?
• Don’t use raw loops
• Exceptions are just fancy gotos
• Dealing with integer overflows
• A list of bad practices commonly seen in industrial projects
• Lambdas as const ref
• Yet another pamphlet about inlining
• windows.h breaks the standard library (and my will to live)
• Passing an enum by parameter
• About &= and |=