Re: [boost] Suggested coding guidelines

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-06-29 13:03:14

At 12:08 PM 6/29/2001, David Abrahams wrote:

 >See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/boost-coding-standard.html
 >
 >These are the standards I use at work. I posted these since a few people
 >expressed interest.

Even a quick glance (which is all I've done) shows your guidelines to be 
detailed, well thought out, and probably of great interest to Boost 
members.

I thing having them available on Boost would be a plus for the C++ 
community.

 > They are not intended to act as requirements for boost,
 >but as "guideposts to uniformity", for those without a preference in some
 >issues and those willing to change. In fact, I think it would be worth
 >discussing what role they should play at boost and how (whether) they
 >should be presented.

Yes, this is a tricky issue.  The addition of these guidelines mustn't 
prejudice consideration of a library for Boost.  If the developer doesn't 
want to change an exiting library or personal coding style, that's OK as 
long as the other requirements are met and the library passes formal 
review.

To prevent scaring people off, I'd suggest changing the name of the file to 
"boost-coding-guidelines" and adding the caveats above as an introduction.

If you put it up for Formal Review, that limits the religious wars to a 
fixed period of time.  After that people can ignore any portion of the 
guidelines they don't like, but folks looking for a uniform set of 
guidelines can reap the benefits.

Nice job!

--Beman