[Adium-devl] Early Returns and the Coding Style Docs

[David Smith]

On Mar 28, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Colin Barrett wrote:

>
> On Mar 28, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
>> but use your judgement for what makes the code easiest for a  
>> newcomer to follow.
>
> What's quoted above is possibly the most important thing in this  
> thread so far. That's the whole point of our coding style  
> guidelines: to make the code easy for a newcomer to follow. This is  
> accomplished in several ways: a consistent indentation and bracing  
> style to make things visually pleasing, creating a standard for  
> naming so that form can then imply function, and discouraging the  
> use of confusing and obfuscating coding practices.
>
> Speaking of making the code easier for newcomers to read, is  
> documenting the undocumented sections of Adium going to happen,  
> ever? I'd like to see it by 1.0, but I dunno how feasible that is.  
> I'm willing to lend some time--indirectly by writing better  
> documented logging code, and directly by actually documenting  
> undocumented classes.
>
> -Colin

	Patr1ck was thinking of doing some documentation work, but I haven't  
heard him mention it in quite a while.

												David