So I have been reading about the Rule of Zero. Simplified version: I do not understand the purpose of this rule. The rule of three and five are sort of "rule of thumbs", but I cannot see the "rul...

I have a base class Base and a derived class D, and I'd like to have move constructor and move assignment operator automatically generated by the compiler for me. Following the Rule of Zero, I leav...

Upon Lightness Races in Orbit's clarification, I've narrowed my post. After reading this article: The Rule of Zero, I came to understand the most, but I still want to solve some unclear issues that...

I am writing a class that uses two objects created using a C interface. The objects look like: typedef struct... foo_t; foo_t* create_foo(int, double, whatever ); void delete_foo(foo_t* ); (simi...

In the recent overload journal under the topic Enforcing the rule of zero, the authors describe how we can avoid writing the Rule of five operators as the reasons for writing them are: Resource m...

I find The rule of Zero as also mentioned on Peter Sommerlads Slides (p.32) very compelling. Although, I seem to remember that there was a strict rule that one has to define the destructor virtual,...