[OpenLayers-Dev] coding style best practices

[Erik Uzureau]

fyi:

http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/CodingStandards

;-)

erik

On 10/1/07, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:28:15PM -0400, Paul Spencer wrote:
> > I am not a particularly fastidious coder but I do strongly believe
> > that folks should be making their code readable and, as much as
> > possible, avoid common sources of bugs.  Also, for those folks
> > looking to make contributions, it is going to be much easier for the
> > core maintainers to bring your code into trunk if it already fits the
> > coding style of OpenLayers.
> >
> > I am sure Chris will have more to say on this, but my particular pet
> > peeves are:
>
> Erik will much more so than me :)
>
> Both of Paul's points are dead on, and some others:
>
>  * Wrap lines at 80 characters. I'm less picky about this than
>    Erik, but he'll go through and clean up the code later if you don't
>    do it, and his commit statistics are inflated enough without giving
>    him more material ;)
>  * Comments when you're doing something confusing are helpful.
>    Don't write a novel, but also don't leave the next guy wondering what
>    was going on. (And as always, a key when commenting is "Not how, but
>    *why*.") I screwed this up with one change I made around r1400, and
>    we've been paying for it for 3000 commits.
>
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
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