Re: [boost] Re: Review: Boost Coding Guidelines

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-07-24 16:48:02

At 05:03 PM 7/24/2001, David Abrahams wrote:

 >Just by the way, since the review process started I've been doing more 
and
 >more heavy-duty metaprogramming with the all_lower_case coding 
convention,
 >and I have to say that the inability to capitalize my type names is 
proving
 >to be quite painful.
 >
 >I used to think that it was usually possible to find a name that matches 
an
 >object's role more closely than its type, but I guess that's not true in
 >some domains.

The general rule may be something like:  "These coding guidelines target 
the general-purpose or basic standard library [need better description] 
domain.  In specific problem domains it may make sense to replaces for some 
of the detailed guidelines as appropriate."

In applications code, I personally switch to mixed-case type names.  A lot 
of people seem to do that.

--Beman