[webkit-dev] Coding convention of constants

Darin Adler darin at apple.com
Thu Jul 9 12:50:39 PDT 2009


On Jul 8, 2009, at 9:08 PM, KwangYul Seo wrote:

> I found another style which starts with "k".
>
> [4] platform/chromium/PopupMenuChromium.cpp
>
> static const int kMaxVisibleRows = 20;
> static const int kMaxHeight = 500;
> static const int kBorderSize = 1;
> static const TimeStamp kTypeAheadTimeoutMs = 1000;
>
>
>
> 2009/7/9 KwangYul Seo <kwangyul.seo at gmail.com>
> Hi,
>
> It seems that there are three coding styles regarding "static const  
> int" constants.
>
> [1] rendering/RenderImage.cpp
>
> static const int maxAltTextWidth = 1024;
> static const int maxAltTextHeight = 256;
>
>
> [2] rendering/RenderVideo.cpp  (prefixed with c)
>
> static const int cDefaultWidth = 300;
> static const int cDefaultHeight = 150;
>
>
> [3] storage/SQLTransaction.cpp (start with a capital letter)
>
> static const int DefaultQuotaSizeIncrease = 1048576;
>
>
> http://webkit.org/coding/coding-style.html
>
> WebKit Coding Style Guidelines does not mention this issue.
>
> All 3 styles are acceptable?

I don’t think we have consensus on this yet.

I personally prefer (1).

     -- Darin

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