carbon-lang/proposals/p0113_decision.md

Decision for: Add a C++ style guide

Proposal accepted on 2020-10-27

Affirming:

• austern
• chandlerc
• geoffromer
• gribozavr
• josh11b
• noncombatant
• zygoloid

Abstaining:

• tituswinters

Rationale

A common, established style guide will allow us to focus on the more important aspects of coding and code review. Once we're familiar with the rules, their consistent application will result in a more readable codebase, and rules that can largely be automated by clang-format will result in a more efficient development process.

This particular ruleset attempts to align with our expected lexical rules for the Carbon language (for example, comment syntax and capitalization rules), which will also mean that we can use a largely consistent style between the aspects of the toolchain implemented in C++ and the aspects implemented in Carbon.