C++ coding standards

**dave_mikesell@fastmail.fm** · Mar 21 '08, 01:15 PM

Re: C++ coding standards

On Mar 21, 7:55 am, dom.k.bl...@goo glemail.com wrote:

Can anyone recommend a good existing C++ coding standard - parctical,
pragmatic and sensible?
>
A company I joined recently are moving from C to C++, they are very
much into coding standards. But I have a horibble feeling they might
get a C programmer to write the C++ standard. Would be nice to be able
to suggest an existing standard.

No, but just a bit of advice to keep the "style" section to a
minimum. You can download and integrate a source code formatter (like
SourceFormatX) into your build stream that will format the code
according to your preference. Concentrate more on best practices. I
don't care what the name of the function is or where you put the curly
brace if it returns a dangling pointer.

**Maarten Kronenburg** · Mar 21 '08, 03:05 PM

Re: C++ coding standards

wrote in message

Can anyone recommend a good existing C++ coding standard - parctical,
pragmatic and sensible?
>
A company I joined recently are moving from C to C++, they are very
much into coding standards. But I have a horibble feeling they might
get a C programmer to write the C++ standard. Would be nice to be able
to suggest an existing standard.

There is the book "C++ Coding Standards" by Sutter and Alexandrescu.

**dom.k.black@googlemail.com** · Mar 21 '08, 03:25 PM

Re: C++ coding standards

On Mar 21, 3:03 pm, "Maarten Kronenburg" <M.Kronenb...@i nter.nl.net>
wrote:

wrote in message

Can anyone recommend a good existing C++ coding standard - parctical,
pragmatic and sensible?

>

A company I joined recently are moving from C to C++, they are very
much into coding standards. But I have a horibble feeling they might
get a C programmer to write the C++ standard. Would be nice to be able
to suggest an existing standard.

>
There is the book "C++ Coding Standards" by Sutter and Alexandrescu.

There was another book I heard of, 101 tips or something similar.

Are these worth investing in?

**ciccio** · Mar 21 '08, 03:45 PM

Re: C++ coding standards

dom.k.black@goo glemail.com wrote:

Can anyone recommend a good existing C++ coding standard - parctical,
pragmatic and sensible?
>
A company I joined recently are moving from C to C++, they are very
much into coding standards. But I have a horibble feeling they might
get a C programmer to write the C++ standard. Would be nice to be able
to suggest an existing standard.

Hi,

Have a look at this chapter in the faq-lite.

Coding standards, C++ FAQ

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/coding-standards.html

**Yannick Tremblay** · Mar 25 '08, 05:05 PM

Re: C++ coding standards

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<dom.k.black@go oglemail.comwro te:

>On Mar 21, 3:03 pm, "Maarten Kronenburg" <M.Kronenb...@i nter.nl.net>
>wrote:

> wrote in message

Can anyone recommend a good existing C++ coding standard - parctical,
pragmatic and sensible?

>>

A company I joined recently are moving from C to C++, they are very
much into coding standards. But I have a horibble feeling they might
get a C programmer to write the C++ standard. Would be nice to be able
to suggest an existing standard.

>>
>There is the book "C++ Coding Standards" by Sutter and Alexandrescu.

>
>There was another book I heard of, 101 tips or something similar.
>
>Are these worth investing in?

IMO, you could do a lot worse than buying a copy of this
book. (Actually the company should buy the copy of the book for the
pricely sum of about 1 hours of developper time), read through it,
select the ones you agree with (hopefully most), delete the ones you
disagree, maybe ignore the ones that are irrelevant to your situation,
and publish your own standard built upon this solid base
adding your own favourite one for local flavour and placing the book
in the public company bookshelf for reference and longer explaination
of some guidelines.

Yan

**Ian Collins** · Mar 26 '08, 04:35 AM

Re: C++ coding standards

dom.k.black@goo glemail.com wrote:

Can anyone recommend a good existing C++ coding standard - parctical,
pragmatic and sensible?
>
A company I joined recently are moving from C to C++, they are very
much into coding standards. But I have a horibble feeling they might
get a C programmer to write the C++ standard. Would be nice to be able
to suggest an existing standard.

The whole team should devise the coding standard.

I wrote one for my last company, but we dumped it in favour of what
ended up as a best practice page on our team wiki. Too many coding
standards go into way too much detail, with section on indentation,
brace placement and other trivia. Let the team decide as they share
code what works for them, if you have rules, make them editor or pretty
print ones that can be kept up to date.

--
Ian Collins.

**322322** · Mar 26 '08, 05:15 AM

Re: C++ coding standards

On 3ÔÂ26ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç12Ê±28·Ö, Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.co mwrote:

dom.k.bl...@goo glemail.com wrote:

Can anyone recommend a good existing C++ coding standard - parctical,
pragmatic and sensible?

>

A company I joined recently are moving from C to C++, they are very
much into coding standards. But I have a horibble feeling they might
get a C programmer to write the C++ standard. Would be nice to be able
to suggest an existing standard.

>
The whole team should devise the coding standard.
>
I wrote one for my last company, but we dumped it in favour of what
ended up as a best practice page on our team wiki. Too many coding
standards go into way too much detail, with section on indentation,
brace placement and other trivia. Let the team decide as they share
code what works for them, if you have rules, make them editor or pretty
print ones that can be kept up to date.
>
--
Ian Collins.

The c++ Programming Languange

**Ian Collins** · Mar 26 '08, 06:45 AM

Re: C++ coding standards

322322 wrote:

On 3ÔÂ26ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç12Ê±28·Ö, Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.co mwrote:

>dom.k.bl...@go oglemail.com wrote:

>>Can anyone recommend a good existing C++ coding standard - parctical,
>>pragmatic and sensible?
>>A company I joined recently are moving from C to C++, they are very
>>much into coding standards. But I have a horibble feeling they might
>>get a C programmer to write the C++ standard. Would be nice to be able
>>to suggest an existing standard.

>The whole team should devise the coding standard.
>>
>I wrote one for my last company, but we dumped it in favour of what
>ended up as a best practice page on our team wiki. Too many coding
>standards go into way too much detail, with section on indentation,
>brace placement and other trivia. Let the team decide as they share
>code what works for them, if you have rules, make them editor or pretty
>print ones that can be kept up to date.
>>

>
The c++ Programming Languange

Is that a random utterance, or a comment?

--
Ian Collins.

**Default User** · Mar 26 '08, 06:35 PM

Re: C++ coding standards

Ian Collins wrote:

dom.k.black@goo glemail.com wrote:

Can anyone recommend a good existing C++ coding standard -
parctical, pragmatic and sensible?

A company I joined recently are moving from C to C++, they are very
much into coding standards. But I have a horibble feeling they might
get a C programmer to write the C++ standard. Would be nice to be
able to suggest an existing standard.

>
The whole team should devise the coding standard.
>
I wrote one for my last company, but we dumped it in favour of what
ended up as a best practice page on our team wiki.

Here, we had a group of representatives from the major projects using
C++ (inaptly named "The C++ Users Group) to work on the coding standard.

Too many coding
standards go into way too much detail, with section on indentation,
brace placement and other trivia. Let the team decide as they share
code what works for them, if you have rules, make them editor or
pretty print ones that can be kept up to date.

I strongly disagree with this. It's best to bite the bullet on those
things upfront, or it's a continual battle all through the project.

Brian

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