Re: [AGG] source code style

[Jim B. <ji...@ch...>]

On 2010-06-23 22:39, Stephan Assmus wrote:
> I have no idea yet what the boost style is, I just hope it doesn't try to encode the type into variable names, which I find greatly reduces readability.

Gosh no - "Hungarian notation" is a total and utter abomination! Death 
to Hungarian notation! :-)

The Boost style guide is here:

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml

> The very simple and strong argument pro a hard 80 char/line limit is that horizontal scrolling sucks. Thus there ought to be "some" limit

Yes, of course, but 80 characters is a little bit low for modern times, 
I think. I used to restrict myself to 80 characters but increasingly I 
found it just wasn't enough so now I don't have a hard limit but I 
generally code to 100 characters or maybe slightly more. Most of the 
time I don't get anywhere near that though, as I try to avoid 
excessively deep nesting and suchlike.

> In any case, discussions about the perfect style have a great potential to go out of hand

How true.

> In general, though I am perfectly happy with the AGG coding style. Changing an entire code base with a decent style to another style could also be considered a waste of time.

Yes, other than the fixed-pitch whitespace alignment, I don't have a 
problem with it.

Cheers,

- Jim