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SpiderMonkey coding conventions

Use the SpiderMonkey C++ Coding Style page on wikimo which is more up to date and the canonical source.

The SpiderMonkey project owners enforce coding conventions pretty strictly during code reviews.

Naming conventions

  • Public function names begin with JS_ followed by capitalized "intercaps", e.g. JS_NewObject.
  • Extern but library-private function names use a js_ prefix and mixed case, e.g. js_SearchScope.
  • Most static function names have unprefixed, mixed-case names: GetChar.
  • But static native methods of JS objects have lowercase, underscore-separated or intercaps names, e.g., str_indexOf.
  • And library-private and static data use underscores, not intercaps (but library-private data do use a js_ prefix).
  • Scalar type names are lowercase and js-prefixed: jsdouble.
  • Aggregate type names are JS-prefixed and mixed-case: JSObject.
  • Macros are generally ALL_CAPS and underscored, to call out potential side effects, multiple uses of a formal argument, etc.

Linkage

  • DLL entry points have their return type expanded within a JS_PUBLIC_API() macro call, to get the right Windows secret type qualifiers in the right places for all build variants.
  • DLL entry points that are not public APIs use JS_FRIEND_API() instead.

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