My hope is we can find a good-comprehensive C++ style guide and just adopt it wholesale, without doing any style-guide writing of our own. Thanks for the pointers Kim, I'll take a look.
Does anyone on the qpid-dev list have opinions on C++ style guides that are worth considering? On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 08:06 -0400, Kim van der Riet wrote: > Some thoughts on C++ coding style... > > This site has links to several notable C/C++ style guides... > > http://www.chris-lott.org/resources/cstyle/ > > As Alan points out, there is no single style guide to point to, but > here are two major guides which could be used as starting points: > > This one is very readable, and may make a good starting point for our > own: http://geosoft.no/development/cppstyle.html I like the idea in > points 1. and 2. that this is a guideline, not a rule. Readability and > maintainability trump the rote application of any rule. > > C++ Coding Standard, Todd Hoff: > http://www.possibility.com/Cpp/CppCodingStandard.html - this one seems > to be a major reference. > > Perhaps the way to go is to choose the top 10 coding style issues that > would enhance readability/maintainability and keep the codebase from > several contributors looking reasonably similar. We can then add to > the list as issues arise. That way, we don't need to "boil the ocean" > with a comprehensive list - something none of us has the time to do. > > Kim
