> Fredrik, > > just to be absolutely clear: Your work is very much appreciated, so don't > worry too much when I or someone else makes comments about coding style! np, comments are needed if you want to improve your coding skills :) > > Fredrik Modéen wrote (2007-10-23, 13:03:51 [+0200]): >> "Fredrik -> please have a look at our coding guidelines, also you have >> weird whitespaces in your patches... :-)" >> >> I have read Haiku coding guidelines twice or three times before that >> patch. I have looked at pe and it uses 4 spaces for a tab, so I would >> like to know where those white spaces are? > > A couple of lines contained spaces instead of tabs, I didn't see a pattern > to it though. What editor are you using? > >> My first patch to media player did bake some coding guidelines but what >> did this patch brake? > > if(...){ > }else{ > } > > -> > > if (...) { > } else { > } the first are the one preferd? > > That was the only other thing. One thing which is not in the coding > guidelines, but which at least Axel, Ingo, I and I think a few more devs > have been doing now is to attach pointers/references to the type name: > > SomeFunction(const BString* name); > > instead of > > SomeFunction(const BString *name); > > We find it is more logical, because the "BString*" is actually the type of > "name". (I know about "char* a, b;", but that's discouraged anyways...) agree and that's my original coding style :) > > Best regards, > -Stephan > > -- MVH Fredrik Modéen