Coding Conventions

I think that a good coding convention contains or covers

• quick reminder about why we should have coding conventions (including links to quantitative research)
• lexical considerations (naming, whitespace, etc)
• class layout
• file layout
• directory layout
• language features (allowed and disallowed)
• abstraction rules
• abstraction mechanisms
• build process
• testing

Coding convention thoughts:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

brian mentioned a bunch of studies that showed that coding conventions were a good thing. he thought that Code Complete might have references to them.