Hoard, don't share

• keep private class parts private
• avoid new/delete
• use objects rather than pointers
• don't pollute name and class spaces (let alone the heap)

Techniques

• incorporation vs. referencing
• transient (anonymous) objects/classes
• nested functions

An opposite example: extreme sharing/referencing in the OpenDoc code

As to the first item, incorporation vs. referencing, I ranted about it in the paper: quoted C++ FAQ at length, gave code examples from OpenDoc, etc. In this presentation, I'd rather concentrate on anonymous objects and nested functions. Well, they're closely related, actually.

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