Coding-Guidelines.md

@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ Enum classes restrict the scope of their members and are strongly-typed.
 - **The return value of non-void functions must be checked by each calling**  
 This is done to check if the function had an error.
 - **Use C++ style cast (static_cast, dynamic_cast…) instead of their C counterparts**
+- **Initialize objects in their costructors: avoid init() functions when possible**  
+It's very easy to forget to call an object's init() method, leaving objects in a undefined state.
 
 ## **Commenting rules**
 - **Every function shall be preceded by a doxygen-style comment describing the purpose of the function, its parameters and the return value.**