Business object coding conventions

[Rich Johnson]

I haven't seen the following spelled out, so I thought I'd take a stab 
at it.  It seems to reflect the general coding standards currently in 
effect for the business objects.

For any given business object the following applies:

There exist three files for each <object>:
   - gnc<object>.h - declaring the public interface
   - gnc<object>P.h - declaring additional object management methods not 
for client use.
   - gnc<object>.c - implementing the object

The implementation is confined to gnc<object>.c, including the 
defininition of struct  _gnc<object>.

Client code #includes only  gnc<object>.h.  The client is aware only of 
the datatype Gnc<Object>, defined as "typedef _gnc<object> 
Gnc<object>".  The client only deals with an unspecified structure via 
pointer--it remains blissfully unaware of _gnc<object>'s internal 
structure.

Did I get it right?  Should this sort of stuff be contributed to the 
devel wiki?

--rich


















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