kdelibs coding style

[Lubos Lunak]

On Wednesday 23 August 2006 23:06, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 August 2006 16:47, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> >  So we're going to have a guide that's pretty strict even about things
> > like placement of spaces but not actually require it?
>
> That would be my idea, yes. A "best practice" or "recommendation".
> Just like many things about kdelibs, like putting the variables into the d
> pointer, or writing API docs ;)

 So none of it will be required? If that's the intention it should be clearly 
said.

 Not that I'd mind, I find many of the items in the Qt styleguide that don't 
have a better reason than matter-of-taste to be bad for readability anyway 
(trailing {, missing indentation in switch, etc.).

> We still do this for fun, so let's not make it a work environment where you
> only get a patch in if it follows 500 rules, with the need for 20 revisions
> of the patch until it actually follows them all.
>
> > How about we then make a
> > list of really required things[*] and call the rest just
> > "recommendations" or whatever, because that's what it's going to be
> > anyway? (Do I have to say that I told you?)
> >
> > [*]
> > - Indent by 4 spaces, no tabs
>
> Would be a good first step.
>
> > - Try to make it readable, use common sense,
>
> Those two things are too vague to be of any use in a list of required
> things :) Everyone interprets that differently in the end.

 And? Poor readability is 90% inconsistent indenting and 10% simply writting 
messy code. What else would you want to be required, "no space after a cast"? 
How does that matter?

> > follow the style of the file
>
> Was already the requirement/recommendation, yes.
>
> > > Well, I think we can wrap this up now - editor-specific config-files
> > > have been added to kdelibs (like .emacs-dirvars), all we need is to add
> > > the kdelibs-coding-style to some webpage, I guess on
> > > developer.kde.org...
>
> Hmm the real question is whether to remove the "( foo )" space insertion
> from kde-emacs :)

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