Alien's Coding Style

Naming

• CamelCase for c++ objects
• underscore_separator_and_no_capital for filenames

C++

Alien is (at the moment) a C++ library. We follow directives of Arcane, mainly:

• C++14 code
• Avoid passing parameters by reference (specially it is forbidden for all Array classes).

File Organization

Alien consists in different modules:

• core
• movesemantic
• refsemantic

Modules are located in the src directory and each module is organized following this directory structure:

• alien directory, that mimics header hierarchy and contains both header files and source files
• tests directory, that contains unit tests for this module.

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├── CMake
├── docker             # Contains docker images for CI and development
├── docs               # Documentation and examples
│   ├── sphinx   # This Sphinx documentation
│   └── tutorial # Alien's tutorial
├── framework          # Arccon and Arccore for embedded build
│   ├── arccon   # Arccon
│   ├── arccore  # Arccore
│   └── CMake    # CMake glue for find_package to work with embedded
├── plugins            # Alien's backend
│   ├── hypre
│   └── petsc
└── src                # Alien's sources
   ├── core            # Alien core module
   │   ├── alien # Sources for `core` module
   │   └── tests # Unit tests for `core` module
   ├── movesemantic    # `move` API
   │   ├── alien # Sources for `move` API
   │   └── tests # Unit tests for `move`
   ├── refsemantic     # `ref` API
   │   ├── alien # Sources for `ref` API
   │   └── tests # Unit tests for `ref`
   └── test_framework  # Unit test framework

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