Sutter’s Mill

Guru of the Week (GotW) is a series of C++ programming problems created and written by Herb Sutter.

GotW #100 and up, listed here, are new GotW articles published from 2011 onward to cover the current C++11 standard.

GotW #1–88 are the original set of GotW articles published from 1997-2003 that describe the original, and now dated, C++98 standard. Most of these articles were subsequently included in my books, often in revised or expanded form. As I update the older articles with a newer C++11 article numbered #100 or above, I’ll put a link at the top of the older article to point to its newer replacement. In the meantime, the older articles are still useful and their code still works, but the discussion covers only C++98 techniques so I recommend you keep my short summary Elements of Modern C++ Style handy as a cheat sheet for the most common changes from older C++98 to modern C++11 style.

This page has the following sub pages.

• GotW #100: Compilation Firewalls (Difficulty: 6/10)
• GotW #101: Compilation Firewalls, Part 2 (Difficulty: 8/10)
• GotW #102: Exception-Safe Function Calls (Difficulty: 7/10)
• GotW #103: Smart Pointers, Part 1 (Difficulty: 3/10)