RE: [PHP-DEV] Update coding standards wrt. C99?

> IMO, mixing variables and codes are always not a good practice I think it depends. For example, modern languages recommend to declare i inside the for loop block instead of in the function block. -----Original Message----- From: Xinchen Hui <laruence@php.net> Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 6:20 PM To: Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> Cc: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Update coding standards wrt. C99? Hey: On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 3:32 PM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > since master requires (mostly) C99 compliant compilers anyway, I > wonder if we like to update our coding standards[1], to reflect: > > * that we require (mostly) C99 compliant compilers (instead of ANSI-C > compliant compilers) > > * that mixing of declarations and statements is fine > IMO, mixing variables and codes are always not a good practice, strict is always means tidy.. mixing declarations and codes sometimes brings unexpected varaibles overriden and hard to debugging. and, I don't think make variables declaration at top of a block is a hard thing to do. thanks > * that C++ style comments are now allowed, or maybe that they are > still forbidden (in the latter case the stated reasons should be > updated) > > We may also consider to drop the "Documentation and folding hooks"[2] > section; besides that it is already partially outdated (AIUI, > doc/genfuncsummary is superseeded by doc/docgen for a long time), I > don't think these folding markers encapsulating each individual > function are useful nowadays. > > Thoughts? > > [1] > <https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/CODING_STANDARDS.md> > [2] > < > > https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/CODING_STANDARDS.md#documen > tation-and-folding-hooks > > > > -- > Christoph M. Becker > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, > visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- Xinchen Hui @Laruence http://www.laruence.com/