We have two sets of coding standards. First are the firm standards, which must be adhered by all code contributed to the system. Second are the guidelines, which should generally be followed; however, we fully recognize that exceptions may occur.
Firm Standards
Modified lines should have trailing spaces stripped.
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All conditionals should have brackets, even those which are a single line long.
Guidelines
A single line of whitespace between methods is all that is needed.
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