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    goetz
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    As a real qt-e developer, I prefer this too, of course :-P

    http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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      Franzk
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      They're a tad too strict for my taste. If you're going to be telling people where to put their ++, you're focusing on the wrong thing.

      "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." -- W.C. Fields

      http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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        Peppy
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        Good reading, but some points I'd rather to change...

        For example:http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml?showone=Doing_Work_in_Constructors#Doing_Work_in_Constructors

        As I am reading more, I am glad to we have Qt "style"...

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          Franzk
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          Heh, back to good old plain C again:

          @Object *o = new Object;
          o->init();@

          @struct Object *o = malloc(sizeof(struct Object));
          ObjectInit(o);@

          "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." -- W.C. Fields

          http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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            Peppy
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            Yes, yes...C# uses it too ((void) Init() functions)

            Google Style Guide is too strict for me...

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              Franzk
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              I think the Google style guide documents the exact mistake a lot of companies make when they are prescribing the style this specifically. Programmers are usually free form thinkers. Putting a too rigid harness on that free form thinking lets developers focus on form rather than on functionality, and frankly, I'd rather have a bit of functionality. If you want to restrict coding rigidly to a certain standard, use a language that isn't as free form as C++.

              "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." -- W.C. Fields

              http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                Peppy
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                @Franzk: I totally agree with you.

                [quote author="Franzk" date="1305574936"]Programmers are usually free form thinkers.[/quote]
                I am too ;-)

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                  leon.anavi
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                  Volker, thanks for sharing! It is always good to know how leading companies work.

                  [quote author="Andre" date="1305548881"]Personally, I really like the Qt convention that class names start with a capital, and method names with a lower case letter. That is different in the Google conventions. [/quote]

                  Yes it is really nice, although I have to admit that I am still getting used to it :)

                  [quote author="Franzk" date="1305574936"]I think the Google style guide documents the exact mistake a lot of companies make when they are prescribing the style this specifically. Programmers are usually free form thinkers. Putting a too rigid harness on that free form thinking lets developers focus on form rather than on functionality, and frankly, I'd rather have a bit of functionality. If you want to restrict coding rigidly to a certain standard, use a language that isn't as free form as C++.[/quote]

                  +1 :) Bull's eye! :)

                  http://anavi.org/

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                    Peppy
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                    I prefer Unix or BSD style, it's not so strict as Google has...

                    Joke:

                    But the best thing that they wrote, was: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml?showone=C++0x#C++0x
                    " Decision: Use only C++0x libraries and language features that have been approved for use. Currently, no such features are approved. Features will be approved individually as appropriate."
                    How can I use C++0x (as it Google said), if there is just specification out?? Think smarter and you'll get nonsense of using this Google Style :D

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                      Franzk
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                      Preliminary implementations, which is why no libraries at all are approved. But one can hardly expect the trailing comma in enumerators to be a library function.

                      @enum HuuHaa {
                      Murk, // c++0x specific feature
                      };@

                      "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." -- W.C. Fields

                      http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                        alexander
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                        I wonder, do trolls have analog cpplint.py?:)

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                          situ117
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                          http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml#Inline_Functions

                          Does Qt encourage inline functions inside the library which can be called from user code ? I guess it could cause binary incompatibilities if definition of inline function changes between library versions.

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                            goetz
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                            Inline functions are not strongly en- ord discouraged, but the "Coding Conventions":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Coding_Conventions section "Binary and Source Compatibility":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Coding_Conventions#017d38d16f3e68ae84e92996ba58c513 requires not to reimplement them (dunno if a change to the code itself would be ok) under certain circumstances.

                            Inline functions an B/C are a special beast, which would lead to use this feature only for short code blocks that are unlikely to change. I second the guidelines of Google here (excluding the -inl.h files).

                            EDIT:
                            To add the Qt counterparts for comparison:

                            • "Qt Coding Conventions":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Coding_Conventions
                            • "Qt Coding Style":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Qt_Coding_Style

                            http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                              Peppy
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                              Wow, we've got our own coding style, that's nice :D :)

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                                goetz
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                                [quote author="Peppy" date="1305821823"]Wow, we've got our own coding style, that's nice :D :) [/quote]

                                Of course - every good project does have its style guide (or adopts an existing one) :-)

                                http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                                  escorciav
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                                  Hi guys,

                                  I would like to know how to import the google-style-code in qtcreator, any idea?
                                  Is it possible as fast as import or I need to modify a xml file?

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