[development] coding standard question

[add1sun]

There is a long discussion about this in the coder issue queue  
(http://drupal.org/node/121388).  I personally favor all upcase and  
don't see any reason to change what is a standard convention familiar  
to many people without overwhelming evidence of the need to change it.

I also have to say that I feel that coder module should not be  
establishing coding standards for Drupal, but instead these things  
should be discussed and agreed upon in the community and then coder  
module implement them.  We do have a Coding Standards page in the  
handbook and I think that should be the closest thing to a canonical  
reference for Drupal code.

- Addi

On Aug 27, 2007, at 2:13 PM, David Strauss wrote:

> 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
>