[Development] Coding style proposal

[André Somers]

Poenitz Andre schreef op 3-1-2014 12:33:
> André Somers wrote:
>> Poenitz Andre schreef op 2-1-2014 23:49:
>>> Jiergir Ogoerg wrote:
>>>> Ironically, not even the IDE (QtCreator) sorts them out, in my example
>>>> parse...() is the 1st in the list, and locale() is the last one (16th).
>>> There's a "Sort alphabetically" check box in the context menu of
>>> whatever-that-combobox-that-I-never-use-for-navigation-is-called.
>> Well, that's a find! I wonder why it is not enabled by default?
> Probably because the current code follows the rule of "Don't switch on
> a fancy option by default unless it's clearly better than the alternative",
> and I even tend to agree that the rule applies here, and the current default
> is good. But since I don't use the combobox at all, that's not a strong opinion.
>
> If people who actually use the combobox agree that alphabetical order
> should take precedence over the order in which the functions are defined,
> the default can be changed. A patch is now on Gerrit (#74614) and awaits
> comments.
I hardly used it _because_ it was still such a hassle to find anything 
in it in a larger file. That might certainly change now...

André