Trivia: Irrlicht source's coding style

[biloon]

I recently read through Irrlicht source code, and I really like the coding style used, especially the comment style. I wonder if there are guidelines to those coding styles for me (Honestly, I would love to adopt it, because my coding pattern is somewhat radical and chaotic).

Thanks

[Radikalizm]

I recently read through Irrlicht source code, and I really like the coding style used, especially the comment style. I wonder if there are guidelines to those coding styles for me (Honestly, I would love to adopt it, because my coding pattern is somewhat radical and chaotic).

Thanks

The coding style irrlicht uses is pretty much the recommended way to program in an object-oriented environment, separating the interface of a class from its implementation (with some exceptions to make the devs' lives somewhat easier, like in the ISceneNode class)
Having good knowledge of object-oriented programming and the concepts behind it should give you enough information to maintain this coding style, and I would really suggest picking up some reading material if you want to study it in somewhat more in depth (I can recommend Object-Oriented Software Construction by Bertrand Meyer)

The commenting format used is determined by doxygen, which is the documentation application used to generate the API reference for the engine

[hendu]

I found it ugly, mainly in the placement of {} () [] and the extra spacing inside those. I much prefer the linux kernel style with regard to those parts.

The interface/class separation is not a coding style question, IMHO.

[Radikalizm]

The interface/class separation is not a coding style question, IMHO.

You'd be amazed at how many people don't know about this

[CuteAlien]

I found it ugly, mainly in the placement of {} () [] and the extra spacing inside those. I much prefer the linux kernel style with regard to those parts.

Unfortunately it's impossible to please everyone with the bracket style - you either love it or hate it :-) But the Allman style used in Irrlicht is the prevalent bracket style used in c++ coding while the one true bracket style of the Linux kernel is probably more common in c.

[ACE247]

Was almost about to say that linux kernel style wouldnt help you much with c++. Looks like someone beat me too it though. And yeah the Allman style is prob the best.
But these are just styles anyway, so go invent a new one! Well one that works and doesn't just look funky...

[hendu]

@ACE247

I'm missing the point in how bracket placing can help in c++

[BlindSide]

Hey man there are some rules outlined in the FAQ:

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/faq.html#rules

[ACE247]

@Hendu It keeps your mind from drifting when reading code, particularly code you wrote a long time ago...

[martinluither]

Make sure that you start by contributing something which is comparatively small like fixing a bug. The next fact is that don’t use the STL, use the Irrlicht built in containers instead.Make sure that you don’t use special compiler extensions.