1.3 Code style

• We strongly encourage the use of underscores_ after member variables (“member variables” are variables which can be used throughout the class). In other words, in your .h files use:

            class MyMar: public MarSystem
            {
            private:
            	mrs_real varname_;  // don't use a plain "varname"
            	...
            }
  

• By convention, a program (not a MarSystem) should return exit(0) upon successful completion. If any problems arise, the program should return a number greater than 0.
• Files should use unix line endings.
• We use the ansi style defined in Artistic Style; our exact style file is in misc/astylerc. To use the file, call

            astyle --options=/path/to/marsyas_topdir/misc/astylerc filename.cpp
  

  ‘filename.cpp’ can include wildcards, ie ‘*.h’ and ‘*.cpp’.

  This style changes the positions of braces {}, tab indentation, and a few other whitespace issues. These issues are somewhat personal and we can almost guarantee that everybody will hate some aspect of the style, but having a uniform style makes it much easier to understand (and fix bugs in!) unfamiliar code. You do not need to format your source code according to this file, but don't complain if your file is modified accordingly.

Unfortunately due to historical reasons these last two points are not consistant within the Marsyas source code.