Geometry Boost List: [ggl] Reviewing GGL against Boost requirements

Subject: [ggl] Reviewing GGL against Boost requirements
From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz)
Date: 2009-04-25 08:24:10

Barend Gehrels wrote:
> 
>>
>>> One thing about 80 characters: this guideline in much more easy to
>>> follow when namespaces are not indented. It's the case in a lot of
>>> Boost code and it's quite accepted in the C++ community. So given the
>>> number of nested namespaces we sometimes have in GGL we could do that
>>> as well. I've never noticed any particular problem of readability in
>>> code I've written that way.
>>
>> So, we're going to not to indent code on namespace level, right?
> 
> OK.
> 
>> namespace a {
>>
>> class T
>> {
>> public:
>>     void foo();
>> protected:
>>     void bar();
>> private:
>>     std::size_t count_;
>> };
>>
>> } // namespace a
> 
> Few things about this:
> - I prefer a struct above a class because, especially in templates, many
> is public, often there is no protected / private at all
> - T in lowercase

One thing that seems I've not spotted:

What T in lowercase mean?

Is it about T as name of type (struct, class, typedef etc.)
or T as template parameter name?
For the latter, we've decided to use T or TemplParam naming. I'm a bit
confused :-)

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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