Coding Standards

[KennyTM~]

On Jul 15, 11 10:07, bearophile wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis:
>
>> do not want to be forced to write code in someone else's style. As long as
>> people don't do completely crazy stuff with formatting, it's generally easy
>> enough to read code such that the formatting really shouldn't be an issue.
>
> But Mark Chu-Carroll is very smart and expert, he's always worth listening to.
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_authority ;) A coding standard is 
good, but a it is often enforced only within one organization, not 
necessarily for the whole language.

Anyway, D has http://d-programming-language.org/dstyle.html, which is 
applied to Phobos, at least. I think it is already up-to-date, except 
the [80, 120] maximum line width and '{' on its own line rules? This has 
been discussed several times already.

(Speaking of which, druntime should also follow this style convention. I 
cringe when adopting my code to the original style 
(`f(<space>param<space>)`) of core.demangle.)

Let's make a bugzilla listing out all lacking (or over-restrictive) 
recommendations in dstyle.html.

> The Scala coding standard:
> http://davetron5000.github.com/scala-style/index.html
>
> I presume other D programmers share your opinion. But not using a standard with a bit more energy will be one of the faults of D.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile