Phobos classes member declaration order

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 13/05/2011 22:26, Alexander wrote:
> On 13.05.2011 23:07, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>
>> I believe that the two most common practices when declaring member variables
>> is either to put them all at the top of the class declaration or all at the
>> bottom. If they're private (as is usually the case), I much prefer to put them
>> at the bottom.
>
>    Could you please tell me, why you put them at the bottom? I just want to understand why declarations at the bottom are better than at the top... especially when it makes search difficult when working with someone else code...
>
>    For instance, talking about core.thread, it took me some time to find the type of m_addr (I am digging for some mysterious segfault in Thread.priority), as this member is used quite often, so search, of course, took some time.
>
>    Given the size of this code, even finding class bottom was a problem. Sure, there are some IDE's or editors which can point you exactly to declaration, but none are available for Linux in text mode, AFAIK...
>
> /Alexander

Why do you want an IDE in text mode?? :s


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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer