# HG changeset patch
# User wardefar@grincheux.iro.umontreal.ca
# Date 1284062268 14400
# Node ID 074901ccf7b6b6fe1acd6e6769980f258d868fff
# Parent  64720cdca3d3d43f6282d508562d9c4031c5df0e
Some additional notes on some of the tasks and points from the meeting.

diff -r 64720cdca3d3 -r 074901ccf7b6 doc/v2_planning/coding_style.txt
--- a/doc/v2_planning/coding_style.txt	Thu Sep 09 13:21:20 2010 -0400
+++ b/doc/v2_planning/coding_style.txt	Thu Sep 09 15:57:48 2010 -0400
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
     * http://eikke.com/how-not-to-write-python-code/
     * http://jaynes.colorado.edu/PythonGuidelines.html
     * http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/#coding-style
+    * http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/wiki/CodingStyleGuidelines 
 
 We will probably want to take PEP-8 as starting point, and read what other
 people think about it / how other coding guidelines differ from it.
@@ -48,6 +49,10 @@
 
    * You should use two spaces after a sentence-ending period.
     --> Looks weird to me.
+    (DWF: This is an old convention from the typewriter era. It has more
+    or less been wiped out by HTML's convention of ignoring extra 
+    whitespace: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing for
+    more detail. I think it's okay to drop this convention in source code.)
 
    * Imports should usually be on separate lines
     --> Can be a lot of lines wasted for no obvious benefit. I think this is
@@ -123,6 +128,11 @@
 Support 2.4 (because some of the clusters are still running 2.4) and write
 code that can be converted to 3.x with 2to3 in a straightforward way.
 Task: Write to-do's and to-not-do's to avoid compatibility issues. (OD)
+(DWF: Pauli Virtanen and others have put together extensive
+documentation in the process of porting NumPy to Py3K, see his notes at
+http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/browser/trunk/doc/Py3K.txt -- this is
+the most complete resource for complicated combinations of Python and C).
+ 
 
    * C coding style
 How to write C code (in particular for Numpy / Cuda), and how to mix C and
@@ -151,4 +161,4 @@
    * VIM / Emacs plugins / config files
 To enforce good coding style automatically.
 Task: Look for existing options. (FB)
-
+(DWF: I have put some time into this for vim, I will send around my files)