• @cbarrick
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    5 months ago

    With a good style/best-practice guide, C++ can be quite productive of a language to work with.

    Those kinds of guides typically define which standard/convention to use and which features not to use (cough exceptions cough).

    I highly recommend Google’s C++ style guide: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html.

      • @cbarrick
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        205 months ago

        I intentionally added a period because it was the end of a sentence.

        If your Lemmy app messed it up, then that’s a bug in its markdown parser.

        • @[email protected]
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          35 months ago

          I’m curious about this. The source text of your comment appears that your comment was just the URL with no markdown. For your comment about a markdown parsing bug to be true, shouldn’t the URL have been written in markdown with []() notation (or a space between the URL and the period) since a period is a valid URL character? For example, instead of typing https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html., should [https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html.](https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html) have been typed?

          • @cbarrick
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            5 months ago

            Huh. This got me curious.

            Yes, I did just type a bare URL. Every mature markdown parser I’ve used turns this into a link, and appropriately handles trailing punctuation.

            So I went to the spec, and it’s explicitly called out that this is not an autolink. Autolinks must be explicitly surrounded with angle brackets <>.

            So yeah \shrug.

            https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#autolinks

            Edit to be clear: This means that both of our markdown parsers are wrong relative to the commonmark spec. But I’ll argue that if a parser is going to attempt to autolink this, then handling trailing punctuation is better than not.

            • @[email protected]
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              25 months ago

              I did not know about autolinks - thanks for the link!

              It is interesting how different parsers handle this exact situation. I usually am cautious about it because I typically am not sure how it will be handled if I am not explicit with the URL and additional text.

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      15 months ago

      Do you think a style guide is enough for an open source code base? Contributions could be coming from lots of directions, and the code review process to enforce a style guide is going to be a lot of work. Even rejecting something takes time.

      • Baldur Nil
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        55 months ago

        This kind of thing can be easily automated nowadays. It’s not really a problem.

        • @[email protected]
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          25 months ago

          Yup, we do it for Python and Javascript at work, and I do it on my Rust projects (and my older C projects). I don’t see why C++ should be any more difficult.