Revise Coding Conventions; Define Coding Style Guidelines

[UdoBorkowski]

Revise the existing  coding conventions for core code.

At least the following aspects should be covered:

• The guidelines should allow space efficient writing style (to keep the core code small). This may be affected by revised bracing and indentation rules. Also consider naming conventions for (parameter/variable) names (e.g. use "tid" (or "t") instead of "tiddler", write "date" instead of "theDate" etc.)
• Use (variable) names consistently (i.e. defining naming conventions). E.g. make it easier to differentiate a variable holding a "Tiddler" object from one that holds a "tiddler title" or one that holds either a Tiddler object or tiddler title.

The new coding conventions should be applied for new code directly, and incrementally for "old code".

[MartinBudden]

As of 11 Mar, 2007: I've made a minor update to the coding conventions. I think we can now declare this ticket fixed, with the proviso that the conventions will continue to evolve over time and so be updated from time to time.