Namespaces, file names,...

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 05 September 2014 12:13:49 John Ralls wrote:
> On Sep 5, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:
> > On Sep 5, 2014, at 11:26 AM, Buddha Buck <blaisepascal at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> When every method name has to be Hungarian-notated to work with
> >> pseudonamespaces, short namespace abbreviations make sense.
> >> 
> >> But with true namespaces, using directives, and namespace aliasing
> >> available in C++, I see benefits in readability to use full length
> >> names for namespaces (like GnuCash::Account instead of gncAccount
> >> or Gnc::Account. There's less likelyhood of collision with, say, a
> >> library written to support the General Nutrition Centers (GNC)
> >> chain of stores.
> >> 
> >> While I personally prefer snake_case to camelCase, I think that the
> >> idiomatic C++ tends to use camelCase.
> > 
> > I agree with both points.  I think the namespace name should be
> > spelled out in full and camel case is more often used in C++.  I
> > happen to prefer it, but perhaps that’s just because I’ve used it
> > more.
> Yes, using GnuCash is less ambiguous that Gnc. Sold. For the record I
> don’t care about snake vs. camel as long as we pick one.
> 
John, thanks for elaborating on the differences between c and c++ concerning namespaces.

I also prefer the namespace name to be GnuCash in full. I don't have a strong preference 
regarding snake vs. camel either.

Apparently lots of schemes exist.
boost uses underscores.

Qt uses camel and goes even further: class types start with a capital letter and each word is 
capitalized,  while for member functions each word is capitalized except for the first one.

I also found the naming rules for Google which is a mixture of both:
http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml#General_Naming_Rules

The latter takes more discipline while coding. On the other hand it helps distinguish what a 
word means. Is it a variable, a type a function ? The style it's written in helps distinguish in this 
case.

Personally I like such a scheme.

Geert