DRAFT document on coding conventions in kde libraries

[Thiago Macieira]

Frans Englich wrote:
>On Sunday 05 March 2006 13:27, Olivier Goffart wrote:
>* Mention that people should avoid C style casts. Especially in headers
> but also in implementation. From my knowledge: C++ style casts are
> stricter and therefore gives the compiler better options for statically
> detecting errors, and in some cases invalid casts are generated by
> C-style casts.

Adding more:

* headers must compile with QT_NO_ASCII_CAST

>* Use the std namespace instead of the default. That is, include
> <iostream> instead of <iostream.h> since the latter is deprecated.
> (Good advice? No?) See:
> http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/coding-standards.html#faq-27.4

This is not a simple guideline. This is a requirement.

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