A guide for programming in style.
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In addition to the general guidelines below, we also have the following more detailed, language/framework-specific style guides:
- Avoid inline comments.
- Break long lines after 80 characters.
- Delete trailing whitespace.
- Don't include spaces after
- Don't misspell.
- Don't vertically align tokens on consecutive lines.
- If you break up an argument list, keep the arguments on their own lines and closing parenthesis on its own line. Example 1 Example 2
- If you break up a hash, keep the elements on their own lines and closing curly brace on its own line.
- Indent continued lines two spaces.
- Indent private methods equal to public methods.
- If you break up a chain of method invocations, keep each method invocation on
its own line. Place the
.at the end of each line, except the last. Example.
- Use 2 space indentation (no tabs).
- Use an empty line between methods.
- Use empty lines around multi-line blocks.
- Use spaces around operators, except for unary operators, such as
- Use spaces after commas, after colons and semicolons, around
- Use Unix-style line endings.
- Use uppercase for SQL key words and lowercase for SQL identifiers.
- Avoid abbreviations.
- Avoid object types in names (
- Prefer naming classes after domain concepts rather than patterns they
- Name the enumeration parameter the singular of the collection.
- Name variables created by a factory after the factory (
- Name variables, methods, and classes to reveal intent.
- Treat acronyms as words in names (
XMLHTTPRequest), even if the acronym is the entire name (
- Suffix variables holding a factory with
- Order methods so that caller methods are earlier in the file than the methods they call.
- Order methods so that methods are as close as possible to other methods they call.