On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 08:38:50PM +0300, Samy Al Bahra wrote: > > Indentation > You proposed for us not to use tabs. This goes against almost every > project I have seen. Actually, it should be completely the opposite, > we should try avoiding space indentation. This comes from more than > just personal style but the fact that various text editors (atleast > decent ones, emacs, vim, scintilla framework, gedit, etc...) allow > a user to set tab-size. This means as a developer, if I like my code > indented by two spaces, I just tell the text editor to do so. When > using spaces you ARE seriously stuck with the given indentation style. > > Please see http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=9&topic=style > for a reference. > Point taken -- Everone agree with Samy on this one? I don't mind changing it (making Python the exception to the rule -- I guess I have been too submerged in Python-culture ;) > > File naming conventions > You cannot assume all programming languages operate fine with lower > case filenames. Take Java for example. I _do_ agree with this > note but you must make a list of possible exceptions. Of course Jave is an exception --- class names and filenames must be the same (so if your class name is in lower-case a filename must be in lower-case).. though class names are not usually written in all lower-case. Will note that. Thanks. > > Change Log > I'm famous! I'm famous! Am I supposed to remove that example ? ;) Regards -- ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://fakkir.net/~elzubeir/| -------------------------------------------------------
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