Coding standards a set of conventions and practices used in software, such as naming classes, variables, and files.

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Looking for automated style enforcement for c source files [on hold]

Is there a jslint or PEP8 like program that will read a source file and tell you where all of the style errors are in that file only for c?
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Future Talend ESB in India? [on hold]

This is my first post, Currently I'm working on Talend ESB. When developing ESB app , I have gone through ESB concept,JMS, Camel and apache CXF. its a lot of learning ahead. Could you please tell me ...
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Script language native extensions - avoiding name collisions and cluttering others' namespace

I have developed a small scripting language and I've just started writing the very first native library bindings. This is practically the first time I'm writing a native extension to a script ...
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Coding convention question about AS3 duplicate variable definition

AS3's got some awkward rules about variable scope, due to its use of hoisting. I don't like pointlessly leaving a bunch of compiler warnings lying around, but it's more important to me for my code to ...
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Is it OK to use same variable to store similar stuff sequentially? [duplicate]

Say I have a variable name len in a function and several strings. Can I use this to store length of those strings one after the other or should I create separate variables? Basically this: size_t ...
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Java convention for if/else if order

I have an if/else if structure that on some cases does nothing. From the code I have seen in my career, the "empty" case is normally left out. But when I wrote my code, it just doesn't feel right to ...
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Do you have to ban atomics to get good tool support for race detectors?

It seems that Helgrind treats atomics the same way as normal read/write operations. So, using atomics will result in lots of false positives. I don't know exactly how ThreadSanitizer deals with ...
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Multiple conditions in a function using PSR

I'm trying use the PSR conventions in all my projects, but today I view some code of my co-worker and I disagree. if ($cond == 1 AND $cond == 2) { // to-do } For me, the correct is: if (($cond ...
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Arguments for conforming to PSR-2

I am trying to convince the lead developer of an open-source project I'm contributing to, to conform to the PSR standards (PSR-2 in particular) created by the PHP Framework Interop Group. He is ...
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Which is the better: a <= b or a < b+1 [closed]

For loops are usually inclusice, exclusive, meaning that you start at the bottom, and stops when you reach, but don't to the top. In Python: for i in range(0,a): print(i) would print 0 through ...
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Excessive use “this” keyword in Java [duplicate]

The this keyword is primarily used in three situations. The first and most common is in setter methods to disambiguate variable references. The second is when there is a need to pass the current ...
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Should my team use some common well-regarded coding standard as a basis for own own?

The R&D team I'm in has decided to adopt a coding standard. We have only recently formed, and have too little code and common coding time of our own to base our standards/conventions document on ...
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Is CType() ever the preferred option?

Is there any time CType() is the proper option over other methods? I did plenty of thinking on this myself, but wanted to put the question in hopes there would be answer to my question so I can put ...
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How can I organize my data flow to process a good program solution? [duplicate]

My main problem when trying to form a program is that while I have the tools at my disposal, I am too disorganized to properly use them to solve my problems. Often my process is simply trial and ...
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How to Implement Error Handling [closed]

Even though I've programmed on a professional level for some years I still do not fully understand error handling. Although my applications work fine, the error handling isn't implemented at a ...

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