Re: [Kicad-developers] Why ALL capital letters for classes and typedefs

2012-06-23 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 06/22/2012 05:55 PM, Alexander Lunev wrote: I believe most developers agree to follow some project predetermined coding style policy... According to the KiCad coding style policy, constants and macro names should be comprised of all capital letters (it is common, that is OK). However,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Why ALL capital letters for classes and typedefs

2012-06-23 Thread Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo
Hi guys, I think this is nothing to be changed right now. Those are the kind of changes that can be made to a project just in certain moments (like the time when there are no branches from main sources -and we have serveral, mine included-). If you start changing capitalization on all files

Re: [Kicad-developers] Why ALL capital letters for classes and typedefs

2012-06-23 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 04:09:48PM +0200, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo wrote: If you start changing capitalization on all files around you'll get DVCS branches broken, and it will lead to a lot of useless work, a work that will give very little gain. Having merge conflicts just because someone

Re: [Kicad-developers] Why ALL capital letters for classes and typedefs

2012-06-23 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 6/23/2012 8:39 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: On 06/22/2012 05:55 PM, Alexander Lunev wrote: I believe most developers agree to follow some project predetermined coding style policy... According to the KiCad coding style policy, constants and macro names should be comprised of all capital

Re: [Kicad-developers] Why ALL capital letters for classes and typedefs

2012-06-23 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 01:38:21PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: I don't know if I would go ballistic but I do know one thing I would not do and that is convert code as it stands now to another coding standard after all the time and effort I spent getting the original code into the current

[Kicad-developers] Why ALL capital letters for classes and typedefs

2012-06-22 Thread Alexander Lunev
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

Re: [Kicad-developers] Why ALL capital letters for classes and typedefs

2012-06-22 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
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

Re: [Kicad-developers] Why ALL capital letters for classes and typedefs

2012-06-22 Thread jean-pierre charras
Le 22/06/2012 10:16, Lorenzo Marcantonio a écrit : 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

Re: [Kicad-developers] Why ALL capital letters for classes and typedefs

2012-06-22 Thread Alexander Lunev
. Alexander Lunev From: jean-pierre charras jp.char...@wanadoo.fr To: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 8:44 PM Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Why ALL capital letters for classes and typedefs Le 22/06/2012 10:16, Lorenzo Marcantonio