[haiku-development] Re: Coding Style clarification/vote

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:13:40 +0200 CEST

Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2009-06-29 at 19:42:58 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > 1) After the license header (and eventual header guard), should
> > there
> > be one or two blank lines between the contents? I prefer two as
> > that's
> > what we use everywhere else to separate sections, but most seem to
> > prefer
> > a single blank line.
[...]
> > As a short overview my votes are:
> > 1) 2
> > 2) b
> My votes would be the same. As an addition, I would like to propose
> to get
> rid of the distinction between copyright in the header and copyright
> in the
> implementation. IIRC, it's currently no blank line between copyright
> and
> header guard but one blank line between copyright and includes in
> source
> files. This is just arbitrary nonsense that I didn't even remember
> which
> way around for the longest time. I'd vote to make it one blank line
> after
> the copyright regardless of where the copyright is.

You must have misunderstood me; at least, you just voted for two blank
lines after the copyright.
Despite that, I would be against this change, and see the copyright and
header guard as one union (= the necessary evil).

Bye,
   Axel.


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