I dislike this proposal. (a) A lot of the code I work with already have fields-at-the-beginning as the predominant pattern in the smaller classes (jit, wasm) so this would be major churn for no gain. (b) For large classes this is an anti-pattern, like having all the vars at the beginning of a function in C; it separates the data from the functions that work on that data. (c) It brings private and public parts of the code close together, and separates public data from public methods.
--lars On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Jason Orendorff <jorendo...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I'd like to add a style rule: in a struct/class/union, put all the fields > (that is, non-static member variables) together, at the end. > > Maybe this is dumb, but while working with Rust I got used to this. Rust > doesn't allow methods to be defined within a struct or enum. And wow is it > easier to see what's going on. "Show me your tables..." and all that. > > (At the end is better than at the top because you *can't* always put all > the fields together at the top. Sometimes you have to declare a type first. > Sometimes it's a nested class that's rather a lot of code.) > > If nobody objects in a day or two, I'll add the new rule here: > https://wiki.mozilla.org/JavaScript:SpiderMonkey:Coding_Style > > -j > _______________________________________________ > dev-tech-js-engine-internals mailing list > dev-tech-js-engine-internals@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine-internals > _______________________________________________ dev-tech-js-engine-internals mailing list dev-tech-js-engine-internals@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine-internals