On 1/4/02 3:48 AM, "Endre Stĝlsvik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Jon Scott Stevens wrote:
> 
> | It is amazing to me...with all the discussion about coding styles and
> | following them, we still have people committing code that doesn't follow
> | what rules we do have...
> |
> | on 1/3/02 11:00 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> |
> | Re: cvs commit: jakarta-commons/logging/src/java/org/apache/commons/logging
> | SimpleLog.java
> |
> | > +        if(_showtime) {
> |
> | <http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConventions.doc8.html#367>
> |
> | "Variable names should not start with underscore _ or dollar sign $
> | characters, even though both are allowed."
> 
> The _instanceVariable and also the __staticVariable idea makes real good
> sense to me nowadays. Do you have any arguments against it? (btw; this is
> a genuine question!)..

I used to do that all the time in C++ developent, although I put it at the
end

   membervar_

It really helps, I think.

> 
> And while talking about code conventions; people writing like this:
> 
> if (something)
> {
> 
> }
> 
> should be shot right there on the spot, in the act of typing it.
> 
> The ONLY way to write blocks is like this:
> 
> if (something) {
> 
> }
> 
> 
> ;)


You left out my 'favorite'

  if ( something ) {     }

:)

-- 
Geir Magnusson Jr.                                     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System and Software Consulting
"Now what do we do?"


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