[webkit-dev] Announcement of Coding Style Change in WebKit EFL port

[David Levin]

Feel free to patch the style checker as appropriate. I suspect there may be
some changes needed here:
http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Tools/Scripts/webkitpy/style/checker.py#L180

Best wishes,
dave

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Gyuyoung Kim <gyuyoung.kim at samsung.com>wrote:

>  Hello WebKit folks,
>
>
> As you may know, I have changed the coding style of EFL port via Bug
> 68209. This is to eliminate unnecessary difficulties
>
> that reviewers have experienced when they review EFL bugs, due to EFL
> specific coding style.
>
>
>
> Bug 68209 - [EFL] Change WebKit EFL coding style
>
> (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68209)
>
>
>
> Major changes are as below,
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>
>
> 1. Use full variable name instead of abbreviation name.
>
> 2. Use standard boolean type instead of EFL boolean type.
>
> 3. Place '*' operator immediately after the data type. (For example, use
> char* userAgent. instead of char *userAgent.)
>
> 4. Use C++ type casting instead of C type casting.
>
> 5. Remove void parameter from internal functions.
>
> 6. Use camelCase instead of  underbar(_) in variable names.
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>
>
> I made a wiki page for this rule.  I will update this page whenever EFL
> port coding style guide is changed.
>
> (http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/EFLWebKitCodingStyle)
>
>
>
> To sum up, EFL port adheres to WebKit coding style except for public
> header from now.
>
> (Because public header is used by EFL applications, public header will
> continue to follow the coding style rule of EFL.)
>
>
>
> We hope that reviewing of EFL port patches will be much easier after this
> change.
>
>
>
> Happy new year !!
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gyuyoung Kim.
>
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