Re: [Netnice-developer] Coding conventions

[Takashi O. <ta...@cs...>]

hello,

Sergei Matusevich wrote:
> 
> Takashi Okumura wrote:
> 
> >>PS. BTW, do we have any coding guidelines? I mean, is there conventions
> >>about naming the classes and variables, indentation style and so on?
> >
> > i personally prefer BSD style for indentation. naming convention for
> > classes and variables is not set. i agree with you that netniced needs
> > such a guideline, and would be happy if you contribute in that part.
> 
> Well, I think (almost) any style is good as long as we will keep it
> consistent through all our code. BSD style is just fine for me, I would
> only suggest to use spaces instead of tabs - it makes code easier to
> print and view in different editors with different tab width settings.

hmm. i think most of the kernel source code is written with tab,
and i basically prefer their style for indentation. i'm using
emacs and vi, but, have not had such trouble...

> As for C++, I like Herb Sutter's notation described in his "[More]
> Exceptional C++" books - i.e. something like the following:
>   ClassOrTypeName
>   methodOrFunctionName
>   variableName
>   memberVariableName_
>   plain_c_variable_or_function
>   CONSTANT_NAME
>   TEMPLATE_PARAMETER

this looks reasonable to me.

thanks!

-- taka