Adding one more point to function style.

Tom


git-svn-id: http://svn.cactuscode.org/flesh/trunk@1860 17b73243-c579-4c4c-a9d2-2d5706c11dac

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/MaintGuide/Style.tex b/doc/MaintGuide/Style.tex
index b266e763..1fc0060b 100644
--- a/doc/MaintGuide/Style.tex
+++ b/doc/MaintGuide/Style.tex
@@ -213,5 +213,10 @@ All functions should have a grdoc header.
 They should have a single place of return at the end of the function to
 make it easy to tidy up and work out what is going on.
 
+Where possible variables should be declared at the top of the function with
+no initialisation, and then initialised after all variable declarations. Of
+course this can't apply to static variables, 'though these should be kept to
+a minimum so we can make a thread-safe version of Cactus later.
+
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 \end{cactuspart}