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I want to know the programming style of all good programmers all over the world.
Programmer in Microsoft C++, Programmer in Linux, companies and many good students, professors everywhere and anybody who thinks she/he is a good programmer.

In brief, I only want to have one criterion.

Example:

__STD::swap(_M_start, __x._M_start);
__STD::swap(_M_finish, __x._M_finish);
__STD::swap(_M_end_of_storage, __x._M_end_of_storage);

I don't like _ and __ and what do they mean.

Posted 6-Dec-09 3:00am

Chau Tri Vu

Updated 2-Jun-10 12:04pm

Moak

v4

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Solution 2

Emilio gave you a good answer.

One thing I can recommend is to follow the style of the standard library for the language you are using. For instance, with C or C++ that would be the K&R style[^] (yes, lots of underscores :) ).

Posted 6-Dec-09 12:47pm

Nemanja Trifunovic

Solution 3

I know that : There are many answers for one question like many styles in programming.

I am not easy when i read their code, because i don't know their style code. If they share code i think they should share programming style.

Many styles, but i want they are followed guidelines. Guidelines followed them, i don't care but i want to know when they share code.

I think if i know the rules, i will work better.

I always wait new answers. Thank all you.

Posted 6-Dec-09 14:46pm

Chau Tri Vu

Updated 6-Dec-09 20:37pm

v2

Solution 4

Obviously, your example is from the C++ standard library.
the underline prefix __ is often seen in a library source.
because this style can avoid conflicting variable name with client code(the code using the library)

If not coding a library. I don't think this style is a good idea any more.

so, there is no criterion. just satisfy your needs.
think about it, what problem the style solves?

Posted 2-Jun-10 7:19am

cva45

Solution 5

Look at the context of the code you're reading - it's taken from a standard library implementation and the authors wanted to make sure their code works with a wide variety of compilers. So for really old festering piles of bits that don't understand namespaces they can just do something like:

#define __STD

and hey presto it'll compile.

So why do they use double underscores? Well if you read the C++ standard you'll see that identifiers with two underscores ANYWHERE in the name are reserved. That means compiler vendors only. Using double underscores is a great way of a compiler vendor keeping their identifiers out of the collision scope of user programs.

Identifiers starting with single underscores are reserved for library vendors for the same reasons.

Cheers,

Ash

Posted 2-Jun-10 10:47am

Aescleal

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Emilio Garavaglia · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-06T07:03:00

May be you'll not like my answer but ... there is no answer for such a question.

Programming style is somewhat personal. There can be guidelines in use in companies, communities etc. but -as far my experience is(30 yers of programming)- they are always more or less violated by their own programmers.

The only recommendation I can give is to find yourself a style that lets you comfortable and -more important- be coherent with it. Don't change it halfway in a file, project etc.

Serious companies and programmers will understand it and follow it when using your sources.