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Re: lynx-dev Lynx coding style
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Thomas E. Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Lynx coding style |
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Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:04:08 -0500 (EST) |
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Carlton Anderson wrote:
> What is the preferred coding style for Lynx?
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> To elaborate, what is the desired tab size?
> 4? 8?
8, but using a shiftwidth of 4 (so it looks like it's laid out for
4-column tabs).
> And what about the placement of whitespace
> and braces?
K&R. Much of the code is consistent - it would be nice to use indent, but
there are some cases that indent won't handle.
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> For a variable consisting of two words
> such as "colorName," is it preferable
> to write it as "colorName" or "color_name"?
Actually the latter - since some ports such as VMS do not use
case-sensitive externs.
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