Athena Developer Guide

Athena Chapter 1 Introduction Version/Issue: 2.0.0
for example, the concepts of auditors, the sequencer and the ROOT histogram and ntuple persistency
service.
For the remainder of this document the name Athena is used to refer to the framework and the name
GAUDI is used to refer to the architecture upon which this framework is based.
1.2.1 Document organization
The document is organized as follows:
1.3 Conventions
1.3.1 Units
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1.3.2 Coding Conventions
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1.3.3 Naming Conventions
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1.3.4 Conventions of this document
Angle brackets are used in two contexts. To avoid confusion we outline the difference with an
example.
The definition of a templated class uses angle brackets. These are required by the C++ syntax, so in the
instantiation of a templated class the angle brackets are retained:
AlgFactory s_factory;
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