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Re: TRUE/true/FALSE/false/NULL/null in doc strings [was: svn commit: r34018 - in ...]

From: Neels J. Hofmeyr <neels_at_elego.de>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:29:07 +0100

Julian Foad wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 05:23 +0100, Neels J. Hofmeyr wrote:
>>> I've updated the doc strings in r34026/r34028/r34029.
>> Thanks! I'd like to change one to say TRUE and FALSE in upper case, because
>> that's what is used with svn_boolean_t. Is it standard practice in the doc
>> strings to write true and false in lower case?
>
> We haven't standardized. I prefer lower case because I don't see a need
> to make them stand out visually, the reader doesn't need to follow a
> cross-reference to their definitions, and the API user doesn't need to
> use the same defined constants that we use internally. However, the
> majority of us seem to prefer upper case, usually with an "@c" Doxygen
> tag. I like consistency but ... whatever!

Yeah, I could rant on about it. But whatever. :)

~Neels

Received on 2008-11-05 23:29:39 CET

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