Re: [boost] Enum naming conventions

From: Maciej Sobczak (prog_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-14 06:02:42

Hi,

Paul A Bristow wrote:

> I don't think Boost have even *banned* camel mode - just deprecated it.

Which for reviewers of new or candidate libraries is (should be) 
effectively the same.

> So
> 
>   enum grays { gray_black, gray_dark, gray, gray_light...}
> 
> or 
> 
>   enum grays {black_gray, dark_gray, gray_gray, light_gray...}
> 
> would both seem only a little longer and *much* easier to read?

Yes.

> Or is it a stronger 'this is an enum' marker that you are trying to achieve?

The marker (eSomething) was used in the project together with CamelCase 
for classes and functions. It worked very well as far as readability is 
concerned, but after moving everything to lowercase_with_underscores the 
enum names now look like eForeigners.

Thanks for your response.

Regards,

-- 
Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com