Re: [Boost-users] BoostCon/C++Now! Talk: How I Code and Why

On 2/13/12, Robert Jones wrote:

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Gottlob Frege wrote:

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I talked about this last year, and this year I've submitted the proposal, so

Do you mean "talked about" it on the mailing list, or "talked about" it as in presented a talk? If the latter can you supply a link to your previous talk?

I mean talked about on the list (and in person with a few people at boostcon11, but not as part of a talk). I can supply a link to my previous discussion, I suppose: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Boost-Talk-quot-How-I-Code-quot-td3320509...

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This sounds potentially interesting, but I'm not really sure I understand what you mean! Can you give an example, so I can better understand what you're getting at?

Well, I don't want to give away the punch line, but in one slide I could present the code that lead me to the guideline "my favourite comment word is 'otherwise'". That leads to a general discussion of good vs bad commenting, "self documenting code", etc. But I find the "otherwise" mantra an easy way to explain and remind people about the principles involved. So, the interesting part to me would be to try to summarize your coding style into a single fundamental/essential trait - ie if I had to pick one thing to follow/remember. (For me it isn't actually commenting style; it would probably be "separation of concerns", but I'm not sure I have the "Reader's Digest" explanation for that yet.)

Thx,

- Rob.

Hope that helps, Tony