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Naming conventions

Last modified: 11 October 2024

Naming convention is a set of rules intended to unify all the symbol names across a piece of code or a project. Each naming rule defines the suffix, prefix, capitalization and compound words spelling for a certain type of identifier.

Note that you can also select the naming convention (along with other code style settings) from a predefined scheme, such as Google or LLVM. For more information, refer to Predefined code styles.

CLion will take naming convention settings into account when performing