Re: coding standards

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 11:19:47 -0400 
"Gordon Marx" <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Stephen Adler <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > What are common coding standards (or web pages discussing the issue?) 
> > 
> > I'm working with a group of coders and I need to impose some kind of 
> > sensible coding standards... 
> 
> One thing that I think would help a lot is if you define your 
> standards in terms of options to indent -- that way you can just 
> enforce them programmatically -- i.e. before code gets checked in, 
> indent is automatically run on the file. At the shop I work in, we 
> just use this "pre-check-in checking" to make sure that the copyright 
> notices are up to date. 
> 
> Also, I don't know if emacs has a similar thing, but I know that 
> (g)vim supports having a comment line at the top of a file for 
> per-file settings, which could be useful to help make the process 
> brainless.