From 1adfe613c1137f9beab1b241770e698b6934d8b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Cook Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:02:55 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Updated General Coding Guidelines (markdown) --- General-Coding-Guidelines.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/General-Coding-Guidelines.md b/General-Coding-Guidelines.md index e929bd0..7d67220 100644 --- a/General-Coding-Guidelines.md +++ b/General-Coding-Guidelines.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ We don't have strict coding standards, but these few guild lines will help. First a few of the more strict guidelines. * Indentation is done in tabs not spaces. You can always change your editors tab stop to make it easier for you. -* `using namespace std;` is forbidden. The std namespace is large and can cause problems blindingly including everything. +* `using namespace std;` is forbidden at file scope and strongly discouraged to be used at all. The std namespace is large and can cause problems blindingly including everything. And for the less strict guidelines. * You should break up your if they are getting too long, we don't have strict limits of 80 characters per line like some projects, but you need to remember not everyone has the same screen resolution as you.