Coding Guidelines

• Please use spaces for indentation rather than tabs. This creates a consistent look in whatever editor the other developers are using and makes for cleaner presentation. Files can be inadvertently modified by editor/IDE default behavior; please, make sure your editor is set up to adhere to this rule.
• Please follow the Google C++ Style Guide for consistent coding philosophy and structure.
• Please try to write DRY code.
• One of the goals of CoolProp is to maintain backward compatibility with older compilers, needed to compile CoolProp for older versions of Python. This means, in general, that the C++11 language standard should be used in the IF97 header file as it is the latest standard supported by CoolProp.

Additional Resources

• C++ Core Guidelines
• C++ Programming, Coding style conventions
• Wikipedia: Need for comments