LSL Style Guide
Effective programming in LSL requires developers use a disciplined practice for applying formatting and convention to their scripts.
These guidelines, referred to as a Style Guide, are not as rigid and the rules required by the language compiler, but never the less are critical to creating maintainable code. The most critical aspect of a style is that you apply it consistently to the code you write.
General Guidelines
Naming Conventions
Script Structure
LSL scripts are comprised of expressions, functions, statements, event handlers and states. A well formatted LSL script follows this structure
script variables
user defined functions
states, beginning with default, then listed alphabetically
within states, event handlers, in this order
on_rez state_entry
touches / collisions touch, touch_start, touch_end, collision, collision_start, collision_end, land_collision, land_collision_start, land_collision_end
communications listen, link_message, dataserver, email, remote_data, http_response, no_sensor, sensor, run_time_permissions, control
inventory changed, object_rez, money, attach
movement moving_end, moving_start, at_rot_target, at_target, not_at_rot_target, not_at_target
other
timer, state_exit