[m-dev.] for review: update c_coding_guidelines.html

[Fergus Henderson]

On 30-Dec-1999, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> > w3/information/developers/c_coding_standard.html:
> > 	- Change the recommended order of declarations in
> > 	  header files: `#defines' should in general come
> > 	  last, after function declarations, rather than before
> > 	  type definitions.
> 
> I don't think that rigid guidelines are good. I prefer an organization
> in which the entities being declared/defined are bunched into logical groups,
> even if this requires multiple sets of declarations for e.g. types.

I strongly agree with that.

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