Coding standards

[Jonathan Ross]

Phil Edwards writes:
 > 
 > 
 >  Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com> writes:
 > >
 > > 	virtual int
 > > 	foo();
 > >
 > > looks ridiculous, and nobody would write code like that except under
 > > duress.  Nobody seems to do it now, even though it's the "standard".
 > 
 > Some of us do it all the time, because there's a lot of editors which can
 > handle looking for ^foo regexps but don't use any kind of tags file.
 > 

Surely searching for declarations with ^foo is a pointless excercise
when namespaces and/or nested class declarations are thrown into the
mix?  IMHO this goes to show that using C coding standards for C++ just
doesn't work.

Jonathan Ross.

P.S. Okay, so it _will_ work for definitions, but only for free functions :-)