C++ Coding Standard Specification - CERN

C++ Coding Standard
Specification
1 Introduction Version/Issue: 1.1/5
For most items two other keywords, source and status, are also present; this information was
maintained until version 0.8 of the document, that is as long as the document was defined in
the SPIDER working group. For the items subsequently introduced, and therefore not
discussed in the working group, the status information is not present. The meaning of the two
keywords is the following:
• Source: provides the identifier of the items from which the item was derived (See
Table 1)
• Status: indicates whether the item was agreed by all experiments/project in the
working group (Status = Common), or by the majority of them (Status = Majority)
The two keywords source and status are temporary; they will stay for the time necessary to
help a possible migration to this standard, but will be removed as soon as they become
historical information.
Table 1 mapping between Identifier and the Source document
Identifier (n=number)
n.RN (or RC, RS, GN, GC, GS)
CXX-n
Rn
COMPn
ARNn
Source document
CMS
ATLAS
LHCb
COMPASS
ALICE
1.6 Organization of this document
This document is organized as follows:
• Chapter 1: Introduction - this chapter
• Chapter 2: Naming - list of all items on naming, with explanation and examples
• Chapter 3: Coding - list of all items on coding, with explanation and examples
• Chapter 4: Style - list of all items on style, with explanation and examples
• Appendix A: Terminology
• Appendix B: List of the items of the standard
• Appendix C: Correspondence of item numbers, from this version to version 0.8
1.7 References
1 C++ coding standards for ATLAS, S.M.Fisher, L.A.Tuura.
Document on the WWW at the URL:
http://www.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/SOFTWARE/OO/asp/cxx-rules/
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