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Marius Amado-Alves <amado.alves@gmail.com> writes:
> Stroustrup, Alexandrescu, and Meyers agree, the rest of the team are
> unspoiled beginners, and there's no legacy code (pre C++11/14), or
> else plenty of time to refactor.

There is no need to write significant new code in legacy style.
Sometimes you have to understand what legacy code does, and patch it
here and there.  But that doesn't involve much picking of idioms.
Rather, you stay with the style of the existing code.