I would suggest the cb (code beautifier) command line arguments as a formal 
specification. This way, the coding style can be enforced in an automated 
way.

On Friday, November 27, 2015 at 3:01:15 PM UTC-5, jean-pierre.muench wrote:
>
> Hi everyone, 
>
> I've read a couple of times when reading the various TrueCrypt reports 
> that the TrueCrypt code is quite hard to read, because there's no 
> consistent coding style used. 
>
> I then thought again and realized that we also lack it. 
> Now as we're more open to contributions than before (if I understood 
> things correctly) should we define programming style guide lines and add 
> them to the project? 
>
> BR 
>
> JPM 
>
> Example (I've never actually seen such a document): 
>
> 1) Always use CamelCase and don't use one-letter variable names. 
> 2) Follow the specifications (and link them) if using the naming scheme 
> for variables of them, like PKCS#1 may use a different notation for the 
> different variable than some ISO document. 
> 3) Always do for-loops as "for(word64 i=0;i<X;++i)\n{\n ...code... 
> \n}\n" with "\n" indicating a newline. 
>

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