Chromium Objective-C and Objective-C++ style guide

For other languages, please see the Chromium style guides.

Chromium follows the Google Objective-C style guide unless an exception is listed below.

A checkout should give you clang-format to automatically format Objective-C and Objective-C++ code. By policy, Clang‘s formatting of code should always be accepted in code reviews. If Clang’s formatting doesn't follow this style guide, file a bug.

Line length

For consistency with the 80 character line length used in Chromium C++ code, Objective-C and Objective-C++ code also has an 80 character line length.

Chromium C++ style

Where appropriate, the Chromium C++ style style guide applies to Chromium Objective-C and (especially) Objective-C++

Code Formatting

Use nil for null pointers to Objective-C objects, and nullptr for C++ objects.

Objective-C++ style matches the language

Within an Objective-C++ source file, follow the style for the language of the function or method you're implementing.

In order to minimize clashes between the differing naming styles when mixing Cocoa/Objective-C and C++, follow the style of the method being implemented.

For code in an @implementation block, use the Objective-C naming rules. For code in a method of a C++ class, use the C++ naming rules.

For C functions and constants defined in a namespace, use C++ style, even if most of the file is Objective-C.

TEST and TEST_F macros expand to C++ methods, so even if a unit test is mostly testing Objective-C objects and methods, the test should be written using C++ style.

#import and #include in the ios/ directory

#import directive can be used to import C++ and Objective-C headers for all source code in the ios/ directory. This differs from Google Objective-C Style Guide, which requires using #include directive for C++ headers.