Coding conventions

[sirinsidiator]

Just noticed that I used if with parentheses when the rest of the code actually does not use them and thought it might be good to write some stuff down and put it into a wiki page.

First two points:

• tabs for indentation
• no parentheses on if statements

Any other ideas?

[merlight]

Agreed: no superfluous parentheses ;)

Pretty please:

• spaces around operators and after commas in argument lists:

local a, b = 1 + foo(3, "apples")

[haggen]

My suggestion is to follow the conventions ZOS used. There are some variants in there, but generally speaking it all looks pretty consistent.

• CamelCase for public functions and methods, camelCase for local variables.
• SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE for constants.
• Parentheses only when needed for semantics or readability.
• Avoid one-liners, i.e. break the line after then, do, function(), etc.
• Space around operators.

Also, Tabs are Evil, but they use 4-space tabs.

[sirinsidiator]

Thanks to your link I moved away from tabs.