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<H1 CLASS="western">VCG Library Coding Guide</H1>
<H2 CLASS="western">Naming Rules</H2>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><B><I>Class</I></B> names with first
letter Uppercase and internal uppercase to separate compound words.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><B><I>Function members</I></B> of
classes follow the same rule.</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">Example:</P>
<P CLASS="code-western">Point3f
</P>
<P CLASS="code-western">{</P>
<P CLASS="code-western"> public:</P>
<P CLASS="code-western"> ScalarType &amp;V(const int i);</P>
<P CLASS="code-western">}</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><B><I>Public Variable members</I></B>
has the first letter lowercase and internal uppercase to separate
compound words.</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">Example:</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><B><I>Private Variable members</I></B>
has an underscore as first char and the first letter lowercase and
internal uppercase to separate compound words.</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">Example:</P>
<P CLASS="code-western">Point3f
</P>
<P CLASS="code-western">{</P>
<P CLASS="code-western"> private:</P>
<P CLASS="code-western"> ScalarType _v[3];</P>
<P CLASS="code-western">}</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><B><I>Class Template Arguments</I></B>
all capitalized and with names remembering where they have been
defined.</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">TypeDefs used for templated Class
arguments just like Class Names, but ending with &ldquo;Type&rdquo;</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">Example:</P>
<P CLASS="code-western"><FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE="Courier New, sans-serif">Point3f::ScalarType</FONT></FONT>
</P>
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<H2 CLASS="western">Header Files</H2>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">Each file of the library has to include
all the files that it requires.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">Header filenames and folders are always
fully lower case. Compound names are separated by '_'.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">In Class definitions place prototypes
all <SPAN LANG="en-US">together</SPAN> before the inline or templated
<SPAN LANG="en-US">implementations.</SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">Example:</P>
<P CLASS="code-western"><FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE="Courier New, sans-serif">#include&lt;vcg/space/point3.h&gt;</FONT></FONT>
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<H2 CLASS="western">Editing Rules</H2>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">Tabs are equivalent to two spaces.
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">There are no strict rules for the
<SPAN LANG="en-US">placement</SPAN> of '{' or indenting.</P>
<H2 CLASS="western">Constructors and casting</H2>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">All basic classes (point3, box3 ecc)
must have null constructors. Non null constructors can be added in
debug versions.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">Implicit casting is disallowed. Write a
member Import function for casting from different integral types and
a static Construct to build an object from different a integral type.</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">Example:</P>
<P CLASS="code-western">Point3f pf(1.0f,0.0f,0.0f);
</P>
<P CLASS="code-western">Point3d pd=Point3f::Construct(pf);</P>
<P CLASS="code-western">pf.Import(pd);</P>
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