RidgeRun Developer Manual - Coding Styles - C++

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Introduction to 'C++' Coding Styles

When writing software source code there are many coding styles as the concept covers a lot of aspects (some of them subjective). In general RidgeRun tries to follow the Google C++ Style Guide.

Other good practices

Conditionals

• Keep the constants at the left side of a comparison. This applies to all C++ comparison operators. For example:

if ( NULL == var ) {
  // ...
}

This is to avoid possible bugs like:

if ( var = NULL ) {
  // ...
}

A derived good practice is to use const keyword as much as you can:

const int val = 1;

if (val = 2) { // This should not compile
    ...
}