On Friday 05 September 2003 12:34, Steve Fink wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 06:39:23AM +0300, Vladimir Lipskiy wrote: > >>D. Function parametres in declarations. > >> > >>At the monent, pdd7 says that we mustn't omit them in declarations. > >>I propose to omit them. The advantage is: We wouldn't run the risk to > >>having a keyword of C++ as a parameter, we would have nothing > >>to coordinate with parameters in definitions. The drawback is: We would > >>lose a lot of helpful information that we could have obtained while > >>exploring > >>the headers. > > > >One solution is to put the parameters in /* comments */ in the > > declarations. > > Perhaps just don't bother specifying it at all? > > In my own coding, I follow the rule of "leave it out if the type tells > you everything you need to know about the purpose." But that's a > subjective decision, and therefore dangerous to put in a coding style > guide.
I think that sometime the type is not enough to know everything you need, so having the name gets you closer (of course, if the name is representative enough). Daniel.
