Re: [Fresco-devel] Coding guidelines, again

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On Wednesday 07 August 2002 23:12, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> This thread died out, and some people on IRC were asking about the
> latest draft, and I would like more comments, so I'm attaching the
> latest copy of the draft coding guidelines.  Suggestions, flames, etc.
> welcomed.

There is something I keep getting upset about that is not mentioned in the 
draft. I'm a bit uncetain wether this belongs in to a coding standard or not, 
it is basically common sense. On the other hand so are most of the other 
things mentioned;-)

Only #include the headers needed, include them where they are needed, try to 
stay away from 'include-everything' headers like libart.h (which includes 
every other header defined in libart_lgpl). Use forward declarations where 
possible. This means for example that you should include <iosfwd> where 
possible when working with streams.

Justification:
Keeps the compilation units small, thus speeding up the compilatiion. Since 
include-files tend to depend on other includes this speedup can be dramatic. 
It further spares the programmer to wade through lots of unnecessary include 
files.

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Gruss,
Tobias

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Tobias Hunger           The box said: 'Windows 95 or better'
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