At http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/latka/developers-guide.html, dion (I assume) wrote:
> Latka has some unusual coding conventions, which > I'm trying to capture at the moment using a tool, > CheckStyle. Since I'm not quite sure what all the > conventions are myself, nothing is really > authoratative except the source code > Onto the conventions... The Sun coding conventions are > followed in most places, except for the items that follow > private and protected member variables begin with > an underscore That's it. Sun/K&R-style, except by private/protected member variables begin with an underscore (to distinguish them from local variables and method parameters). I don't think we use public variables often (if at all), but if we did I think not using the underscore would be appropriate. > private methods also begin with an underscore I think I've been known to do this on rare occasions (mainly when there is some public method and protected/private method with an otherwise identical signature) but I wouldn't claim it to be "conventional" in any sense of the word. I also don't see any examples of that in the Latka code, but I just did a simple grep so maybe I missed something. (I'm not trying to dictate the Latka coding conventions here, I'm just trying to describe the convention that was followed before Latka became commons-latka.) - Rod
