[development] coding standard question

David Strauss david at fourkitchens.com
Mon Aug 27 18:13:39 UTC 2007


I personally prefer uppercase because it's more consistent with other
constants. What source says lowercase is faster?

Steve Rude wrote:
> So I was trying to research a coding standard that I don't see
> documented anywhere.
> What is the standard about NULL, TRUE and FALSE.  According to the coder
> module it says to use lowercase because it is faster, but throughout
> core there is uppercase.
> 
> 
> e.g. in the system.module (not to mention the trailing comma is missing...)
> 
> /**
> * Implementation of hook_menu().
> */
> function system_menu($may_cache) {
>  $items = array();
> 
>  if ($may_cache) {
>    $items[] = array('path' => 'system/files', 'title' => t('File
> download'),
>      'callback' => 'file_download',
>      'access' => TRUE,
>      'type' => MENU_CALLBACK);
> 
> I know this is a very minor point, but we are trying to match our
> internal coding standards with that of Drupal.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Steve Rude

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