On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:50:26PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
Ian Lynagh wrote:
* Don't leave trailing white space in your code * Don't use tabs * Aim to keep lines under 80 characters * Use the CamelCase variable naming convention * Don't use explicit braces and semicolons
I'm with you all except for the 4th one:
Likewise.
* Use the CamelCase variable naming convention
I'm rather attached to the convention I use, which is
- CamelCase for exported identifiers - underscores otherwise
(I'm pretty sure I don't use it consistently, so don't bother to dig up counter-examples though).
I'm with you on this. I prefer underscores in general, and find it helpful to use them in ways distinct from CamelCase. For instance, the new "Repository" API in darcs is all CamelCase, but less portable functions (sometimes exported, but always deprecated for use in darcs commands--except in exceptions such as get) use underscores. I'd say that we ought only to have the convention that exported functions are CamelCase, and let folks do whatever they want inside a module. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University