-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/2/11 11:38 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: > There’s a lot of Google’s code style that I hate, and I wouldn’t hold it > up as something everyone should follow. (The 80-character line length > and 2-space indents are particularly infuriating.)
Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear. I was NOT holding out Google's style guide as authoritative in entirety; I was pointing out that for the particular matter of method declaration spacing its formal guideline matches what Apple informally promulgates (by choice of style in their docs and header files). > Personally, I find it more readable to have spaces after the “:”s in > message expressions. Fair enough; if you have a particular readability concern and have at least standardized internally then who am I to disagree? But the OP to whom I was responding appeared (to me) to not have developed a particular coding style of choice, and I was directing them to follow Apple's lead, which, absent extenuating circumstances, is probably the best option. > IMHO it’s not worth trying to standardize where people put spaces in > their lines. Everyone has a different opinion and it just leads to > religious wars. And it's not a battle I wish to wage. (I considered replying to the OP off-list, but chose to go public so that they could benefit from others' experience - I have no desire to prove that "my way is right.") (I also carefully avoided the verboten dilemmas such as: does the opening brace go on the same or subsequent line?) (And before anyone gets any ideas, the foregoing was rhetorical; please, for the love of all that is good in the world, don't start a thread on this matter!) > But naming conventions are important. Lowercase method names are pretty > universally used. I’m also strongly in favor of distinguishing instance > variable names with a leading or trailing underscore, because it > eliminates a lot of confusing ambiguities when reading code. Unlike the space issue, both of these ARE addressed in the official Cocoa style guidelines: lowercase is advised and leading (but not trailing) underscores are reserved for use by Apple to avoid collision in the private namespace. - -- Conrad Shultz Synthetiq Solutions www.synthetiqsolutions.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFN597paOlrz5+0JdURAuauAJ9TsRXvzKcUpVodiiIfftgV66Q09QCfZlhO 7cLurrQPD8XJ4aM4cd5FoO0= =d8uZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
