On 11/26/18 10:59 AM, Martin Sebor wrote: > Martin suggested we update the Coding Conventions to describe > the expected style for function declarations with a pointer > return types, and for overloaded operators. Below is the patch. THanks. That's fine.
> > As an aside, regarding the space convention in casts: a crude > grep search yields about 10,000 instances of the "(type)x" kinds > of casts in GCC sources and 40,000 of the preferred "(type) x" > style with the space. That's a consistency of only 80%. Is > it worth documenting a preference for a convention that's so > inconsistently followed? Please do. It's a fairly recent change -- I suspect some old code was never fixed and some folks (perhaps myself) have that extraneous whitespace in their muscle memory and still need to eliminate it. jeff
