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diff --git a/doc/developer-notes.md b/doc/developer-notes.md index ad15aa662e..2f04d6ee6c 100644 --- a/doc/developer-notes.md +++ b/doc/developer-notes.md @@ -332,6 +332,12 @@ C++ data structures - *Rationale*: Ensure determinism by avoiding accidental use of uninitialized values. Also, static analyzers balk about this. +- By default, declare single-argument constructors `explicit`. + + - *Rationale*: This is a precaution to avoid unintended conversions that might + arise when single-argument constructors are used as implicit conversion + functions. + - Use explicitly signed or unsigned `char`s, or even better `uint8_t` and `int8_t`. Do not use bare `char` unless it is to pass to a third-party API. This type can be signed or unsigned depending on the architecture, which can |