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Design Process : Coding Style
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*State* _Final_
*Date* _2007-06-27_
*Proposed by* link:ct[]
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CodingStyle
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Define coding style standard which we will use.
Description
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We need to agree on some coding style, imo constistency is the most important
part with this, no matter which style we use.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style[]
.Notes:
* no tabs, use spaces!
.Proposed:
* K&R by ichthyo
* compact and well known
* GNU by cehteh
* imo the best readability (albeit little strange)
* cinelerra might apply as official GNU project someday
Another question: __how to write identifiers?__
.Proposed:
* ichthyo: use link:CamelCase[], start ClassNames upper case and variableNames
in lower case. Make all namespaces and package (dir) names completely
lowercase
Tasks
^^^^^
* Bouml config to generate this style
* footers (or headers) to configure common editors to use this style by default
Pros
^^^^
Cons
^^^^
Alternatives
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Rationale
~~~~~~~~~
Conclusion
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we agreed on GNU style
-- link:ct[] [[DateTime(2007-07-03T04:04:22Z)]]
Comments
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Since link:ct[] called spaces instead of tabs first, we should stick to that. I
think all other reasons will lead us to nowhere!
Although I'm used to a BSD/KNF-like coding style I will try the GNU one. After
all, the wikipedia page mentions no disadvantages of that style :)
I just proposed K&R because it is widely accepted. Personally, I was never very
fond of K&R style, I always prefered putting opening braces to the left. I
never used GNU style until now, but it looks somewhat apealing to me. (btw,
ECLIPSE comes with presets for all this styles :-P ). Anyhow, I can adapt to
most any style. The only thing I really dislike is using tabs (with the
exeption of database DDLs and CSound files, where tab are actually helpful) :)
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