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    Franzk
    wrote on 16 May 2011, 19:42 last edited by
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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
      wrote on 16 May 2011, 19:57 last edited by
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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
        wrote on 16 May 2011, 21:15 last edited by
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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
          wrote on 16 May 2011, 21:48 last edited by
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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
            wrote on 17 May 2011, 05:32 last edited by
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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
              wrote on 17 May 2011, 09:23 last edited by
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              I wonder, do trolls have analog cpplint.py?:)

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                situ117
                wrote on 18 May 2011, 22:39 last edited by
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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
                  wrote on 18 May 2011, 22:57 last edited by
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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).

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                  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
                    wrote on 19 May 2011, 16:17 last edited by
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                    Wow, we've got our own coding style, that's nice :D :)

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                      goetz
                      wrote on 19 May 2011, 22:31 last edited by
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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
                        wrote on 9 May 2013, 11:39 last edited by
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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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