Coding standards

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Guidelines

We follow standard C# coding guidelines unless otherwise stated: [1]. Corrections to existing files to follow these standards are welcome.

Formatting

• We put curly brackets on separate lines and use 4 space tabs.
• Tab themselves should be spaces, not actual hard tabs.
• Use string instead of String when refering to the System.String type.

Naming

• We use full words to name things.
• Aim for assosiative naming so that the logic is clear without explicit comments.

Classes

Unless the classes are very trivial, there should be one class per file.

public class SimpleExample
{

}

Methods

Method names have all their words capitalized (as opposed to Java, which culturally uses camelCase).

public class SimpleExample
{
    public void ExampleMethod(int exampleAttribute)
    {
        string exampleVariable = "test value";
    }
}

Fields

Fields should be always initialized when declared. Member fields start with m_ and continue in camelCase:

public class SimpleExample
{
    private long m_exampleMemberField = 0;
    private static double m_exampleStaticMemberField = 2;

    public void ExampleMethod(int exampleAttribute)
    {
        string exampleVariable = "test value";
    }
}

Warnings

• Please keep the code warning free, using #pragma only if absolutely necessary. For instance

#pragma warning disable 0612
           ASSET_TYPE_TO_EXTENSION[(sbyte)AssetType.Script]              = "_script.txt";   // Not sure if we'll ever see this
#pragma warning restore 0612

Logging

Each class should have their own logger which is declared private and is not inherited:

public class SimpleExample
{
    private static readonly ILog m_log = LogManager.GetLogger(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);
}

use of var and new()

Only use var in a variable declaration when the type of the variable is clear on the right side Only use new(..) in a variable declaration when the type of the variable is clear on the left side

    var a = new List<string>();
//or
    List<string> b = new(); // ok

    var c = mything(); // not ok. we cant see the type without looking for mything details.