CodeDog Style Guide

The following are some general guidelines so that we all produce code that looks similar.

• Use 4 spaces to indent. Do not use tab characters. You can set your editor to do this automatically.

• Line up curly braces like this:

  
          if(…){
              // code here
          } else {
              // code here
          }
          

• If it seems appropriate, lines of code can be made to line up with each other like this:

  
          sizeDiff            <- 0
  
          LHS.value.format    <- fLiteral
  
          LHS.value.str       <- RHS.value.str
  
          LHS.value.sizeMode  <- fromGiven
          

• Use camelCase for identifiers. Class names can be capitalized while other identifiers start lower case.

• Only put more than one command on a single line when it adds to the clarity of the code or makes trivial things take less space.

  Separate the items with semicolons:

  
             void: clear()<-{path<-NULL; flags<-0;}