New York Times - C Style Guide???

[willichan]

https://github.com/NYTimes/objective-c-style-guide

[sarcasm]

Hurrah!  The programming experts at the New York Times have published their style guide for C.

Start cleaning up your code folks.

[/sarcasm]

This was aparently written for Objective-C, but they want it to be adopted for all C-style languages.

That's right.  All this time, you thought turning to technical publications and fellow coders was the way to go, when in fact you should have been turning to a newspaper.

[can't seem to  /sarcasm]

[Jon]

I read that, they advocate this style which I have never managed to get on with

if (something) {
...
...
..
}

I stopped reading after that

[Richard Robertson]

I will never understand people who indent with manual spaces. I stopped reading at that part. Which is only the second part. The first one made no sense as I'm not an Objective-C coder.

[FireFox]

  On 8/7/2013 at 4:18 PM, Jon said:

if (something) {
...
...
..
}

Damn, you forgot a 4th space.

[monoceres]

What's so special about this? It's just some rules used by NYTimes to make sure their code base is following the same style.

  Quote

This style guide outlines the coding conventions of the iOS team at The New York Times. 

 

It's far more important that everybody in a team follow the same conventions than that the code is 100 % correct from a philosophical standpoint (which of course isn't even objective(-c)). 

[Shaggi]

  On 8/8/2013 at 12:38 PM, monoceres said:

It's far more important that everybody in a team follow the same conventions than that the code is 100 % correct from a philosophical standpoint (which of course isn't even objective(-c)). 

I'll second this. Consistency is always the best, else reading/working on an existing codebase is arguably enough reason to suicide.

[Ascend4nt]

The Google style guides are interesting read, and the Facebook open-source code (folly) is nice to peruse although they don't have a style guide per se.  Still, Andrei Alexandrescu, who's a part of that team and author of Modern C++ Design, is an amazing talent from which alot can be learned about coding style.

[willichan]

I don't think I have ever been anywhere even close to what they want to see.  But then again, I have always had an aversion to newsprint on my fingertips.  It messes with the pizza sauce flavor.