MATLAB Style Guidelines 2.0
MATLAB has changed just a little in the 12 years since I wrote my previous style guide. This is an updated and revised version.
This document is concerned with correctness, clarity and generality. The goal of these guidelines is to help produce code that is more likely to be correct, understandable, sharable and maintainable.
These MATLAB coding recommendations are consistent with best practices in the software development community. The guidelines are generally the same as those for C, C++ and Java, with modifications for MATLAB features and history. The recommendations are based on guidelines for other languages collected from a number of sources and on personal experience.
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Inspired by: MATLAB Programming Style Guidelines, MATLAB Style Guide Wiki access and search function, Matlab Style Guidelines Cheat Sheet
Inspired: MATLAB Coding Checklist
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Edward Bello (view profile)
Great recommendations, I find myself understanding my own code better!
Weiyang Wang (view profile)
Diego ALMEIDA (view profile)
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Julian Hapke (view profile)
I'd be so happy, if everybody who sends me code, would stick to those simple conventions.
Jens Jenewein (view profile)
Jonas Stehli (view profile)
Monika Jaskolka (Bialy) (view profile)
Tamas Majoros (view profile)
Many thanks
Matthew Kelly (view profile)
Jiang WANG (view profile)
Thank you so much for your sharing and efforts since 2003.
David Zhang (view profile)
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Tom Clark (view profile)
Really good style guide, which is almost identical to the guide we developed internally and independently over many years in-house; we've collapsed onto this guide with minimal effort.
I left off the fifth star for two reasons:
1 - There's no specific naming conventions for classes, as well as class properties and methods. To be fair, TMW's examples of this have varied somewhat in style over the years.
2 - No original text file used to generate the PDF.
@Richard, if you'd like to put this up on GitHub with the base text file, I'd be very happy to collaborate on the class naming?
Jochen Smolka (view profile)
David J. Mack (view profile)
Very good idea!
Ryan (view profile)
Thanks, very useful.
Hilmar Lehnert (view profile)
@Richard: This is great stuff. Is it permissable to post this on an internal corporate website for a team to be shared ?
Igor Kuklin (view profile)
No information on proper style of naming of classes (lowercase? camelConvention?) and properties. The .pdf seems to be formatted for very small screens, requires a lot of vertical scrolling vs version 1.5.
Ping Pei (view profile)
very good
Laurence Montrose (view profile)
best way to prevent mistakes is having a strong style guide - Thanks!
Manuel (view profile)
Micah (view profile)
Excellent style guidelines for MATLAB programming.
Bradley Steel (view profile)