[Bluemusic-devel] Code Formatting Standards

[stevenyi <ste...@cs...>]

Hi all,

I received my replacement drive yesterday and after a long night am
pretty much back up and ready to get going back on blue.  =)

Today, I've reformatted all of the source code for blue.  I was relying
on tabs and setting the tabs to be displayed as 4 spaces in my
editor(using Eclipse).  I've decided that to change now to no longer
using tabs and only using spaces, with indentation at 4 spaces.  Over
time, I've switched from 2 spaces to 4 spaces in the code as my
preference has changed.  I think with 4 spaces and not relying on
editors to display tabs to whatever, this code base will be easier to
view by others, as well as myself when not using Eclipse.

In regards to brace-style please refer to the existing code.  The style
I prefer is:

if(whatever) {
    //code
}	

If you're interested in committing any code, please do respect the
existing formatting style.  I know everyone has their own preference for
brace styles and tabbing, but this is the style now set for the
project.  

I'll try to document the coding standards in the developer docs sometime
unless someone else wants to add that. =)

Thanks everyone!  
steven

p.s. - last I stopped, the cecilia module was coming along nicely. 
there's some complications with having to create unique variable names
in case of multiple types of the same cecilia module are in the same
document, but besides that, I think things are going well.  it should
take me a day or two to get myself reoriented with the code and
hopefully will be able to get this out soon.  Thanks!