RFR: Updated section on Code Conventions.

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2020-06-22 18:40, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> 2020/6/18 6:10:21 -0700, Andreas Lundblad <github.com+5994243+aioobe at openjdk.java.net>:
>> Pull request for adding code conventions.
> Thanks for contributing this material, but I don’t think that the
> Developers’ Guide is the right place for it.
>
> If we have agreed policies about coding style then we should treat
> them as authoritative, normative information.  As such, they’d be
> out of place in a Guide that’s meant only to contain tutorials and
> suggestions.
Since we have no agreed policies about coding style, this document *is* 
nothing but a tutorial and suggestion! If you follow these guidelines, 
you patch is much more likely to be accepted by the Reviewers, than if 
it violates them.

I for one would love to see an official coding style policy, but that 
has been an on-and-off discussion for years. In the meantime, the 
Developer Guide is definitely the right place to put Andreas' contribution.

/Magnus
>
> - Mark