Code Formatting Guidelines

General Formatting Guidelines for Julia code contributions

  • Follow the latest dev version of Julia Style Guide.

  • Use whitespace to make the code more readable

  • No whitespace at the end of a line (trailing whitespace)

  • Comments are good, especially when they explain the algorithm

  • Try to adhere to a 92 character line length limit

  • It is generally preferred to use ASCII operators and identifiers over Unicode equivalents whenever possible

  • In docstrings refer to the language as "Julia" and the executable as "julia"

General Formatting Guidelines For C code contributions

  • 4 spaces per indentation level, no tabs
  • Space between if and ( (if (x) ...)
  • Newline before opening { in function definitions
  • f(void) for 0-argument function declarations
  • Newline between } and else instead of } else {
  • If one part of an if..else chain uses { } then all should
  • No whitespace at the end of a line