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<h1>Boost Header Policy</h1>
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<p>Header files are the place where a library comes into contact with user code
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and other libraries. To co-exist peacefully and productively, headers must
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be "good neighbors".</p>
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<p>Here are the standards for boost headers. Many of
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these are also reasonable guidelines for general use.
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<li>Header filenames should have a .hpp (lowercase) extension. </li>
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<li>Unless multiple inclusion is intended, wrap the header in #ifndef guards.
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Use a naming convention that minimizes the chance of clashes
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with macro names from other's code. The <a href="#SampleHeader">sample
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header</a> uses the Boost convention of all uppercase letters, with the
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header name prefixed by the namespace name, and suffixed with HPP, separated
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by underscores.</li>
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<li>Wrap the header contents in a namespace to prevent global namespace
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pollution. The namespace approach to pollution control is strongly preferred
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to older approaches such as adding funny prefixes to global names.
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Libraries which are designed to work well with other Boost libraries should
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be placed in namespace <tt>boost</tt>.</li>
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<li>Make sure that a translation unit consisting of just the
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contents of the header file will compile successfully.</li>
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<li>Place the header file in a sub-directory to prevent conflict with
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identically named header files in other libraries. The parent
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directory is added to the compiler's include search path. Then both
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your code and user code specifies the sub-directory in <tt>#include</tt>
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directives. Thus the header <a href="#SampleHeader">sample header</a>
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would be included by <tt>#include <boost/furball.hpp></tt></li>
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<li>The preferred ordering for class definitions is public members, protected
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members, and finally private members.</li>
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<li>Include the boost/config.hpp <a href="../libs/config/config.htm">configuration
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header</a> if there is a need to deal with compiler or platform
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configuration issues.</li>
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<h2><a name="SampleHeader"></a>Sample Header</h2>
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<pre><tt>// Boost general library furball.hpp header file ---------------------------//
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<<i> Copyright and license notice</i>, as indicated in the <a href="license_info.html">license page</a> >
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// See http://www.boost.org/ for latest version.
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#ifndef BOOST_FURBALL_HPP
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#define BOOST_FURBALL_HPP
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namespace boost {
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// Furball class declaration -----------------------------------------------//
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class furball
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{
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public:
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void throw_up();
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private:
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int whatever;
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}; // furball
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} // namespace
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#endif // include guard</tt></pre>
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<h2>Coding Style</h2>
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<p>The alert reader will have noticed that the <a href="#SampleHeader">sample
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header</a> employs a certain coding style for indentation, positioning braces,
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commenting ending braces, and similar formatting issues. These stylistic
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issues are viewed as personal preferences and are not part of the Boost Header
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Policy.</p>
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<p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->02 October, 2003<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="38549" --></p>
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<p>© Copyright Beman Dawes 1998</p>
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Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See
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accompanying file <a href="../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a> or copy
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at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)
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