Programming style & conventions

The goal of coding to a suggested style is readability and maintainability – if many developers implement code in COMPAS with their own coding style, readability and maintainability will be more difficult than if a consistent style is used throughout the code. Strict adherence isn’t really necessary, but it will make it easier on all COMPAS developers if the coding style is consistent throughout.

Some elements of programming style:

• Comments
• Braces
• Indentation
• Function parameters
• Performance & optimisation
• Naming conventions