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Re: [cxx-conversion] New Hash Table (issue6244048)
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis
<gdr@integrable-solutions.net> wrote:
> with the current implementation language. ?Consequently, I think
> we should retain the binding suggested by the C++ standard.
> I realize that the existing GNU C convention says the opposite -- but
> then it is written for C.
This point of yours should be stressed. Using writing standards of
one language to develop in another language is a fundamentally bad
idea. C and C++ kind of look the same, but they are not:
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#C-slash
You wouldn't use the GNU C Coding conventions to write in tcl, and you
shouldn't use them to write in C++. You should just create the GNU
C++ Coding Standards new, and not base them off of the former.
What I see happening in this and in other recent threads is people
starting to apply C ideas to C++ code formatting. Aren't there other
people out there that already did a pretty good job of painting that
shed green? (I'm asking in earnest, I really don't know.) I know in
the defense world that the JSF project did a very in depth and very
strict standard (http://www.jsf.mil/downloads/down_documentation.htm),
but that's as much as I know.