C++ Coding Guideline 102

Question

If you were allowed to add another coding guideline to the 101 guidelines of the \"C++ coding standards\" (Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu), which would you add?

Answer 1

Write for a year later.

Answer 2

"Use RAII judiciously"

Answer 3

I vote for: "avoid considering goto, naming notation and indentation as being the subjects of coding rules"

Answer 4

Rule 102: Any change to expected functionality should result in a regression test that fails.

Answer 5

Prefer constructors to init()/setup() functions.

Why manipulating an object that may be in an unusable state? Isn't it better to not have it at all ?