On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 01:02:18AM -0700, Alexander Lunev wrote:
> The KiCad coding style policy contains the requirement: "Class, typedef, 
> enum, name space, and macro names should be comprised of all capital letters."
> My question is why should CLASSES and TYPEDEFs be comprised of ALL capital 
> letters? What is the reason for that?
> 
> The most common convention that I have ever seen before sounds like:
> "A class name should begin with a capital letter and be written in mixed case 
> (e.g., String). If a class name consists of more than one word, each word 
> should begin with a capital letter (e.g., StringBuffer). If a class name, or 
> one of the words of a class name, is an acronym, the acronym can be written 
> in all capital letters (e.g., URL, HTMLParser)."

Well that's not the strangest coding convention in kicad :P just ask our
tyrannical leaders, they'll just say "they can't read them otherwise".

Oh well, I've no issues with that...


-- 
Lorenzo Marcantonio
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