[Corelinux-develop] Fwd: Comments and question on the corelinux++ coding standards

[Christophe Prud'h. <pru...@MI...>]

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Subject: Comments and question on the corelinux++ coding standards
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:52:48 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
From: Robert Marshall <ra...@fs...>
To: pru...@us...


I've used this document as a basis for designing our own standards (thanks
 very much). I hope you don't mind if I ask some questions and make a few
 comments on that document.

- standard 1 referes to the Venice coding standards. Is this a publically
 available document? I couldn't find any references to it on the internet. -
 Guideline 16 is really a rationale for the previous standard (33) rather
 than a guideline in itself.

- the formatting of the html makes the examples in standards 34-36
 meaningless. - Standard 60 and guideline 40 seem to be in conflict
- standard 67, I'd add the words `and unimplemented' to the second sentence
 for clarity. - the reference to sourceware.cygnus.com is dated with the
 takeover by redhat. Again couldn't find the template standards being
 referred to here, if you could point me in the right direction I'd be very
 grateful! - Have grave doubts about standard 114 with the current state of
 exception specification support. I'm curious that namespace and template
 mention is very scant but there's this reference. - The bibliography appears
 to reference itself (I suppose though it tells you where to get the
 original) - I'm looking at developing standards for the use of the STL do
 you know of any existing guidelines for this. - the comments to webmaster at
 the foot of the page refers to sourcefforge. (apologies if this was a
 deliberate spam beater) - miscellaneous typographical errors.

Thanks for reading this far!

Robert





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