For larger projects, it is useful to define and rely on a set of conventions especially for naming of variables, files, etcetera. This helps to simplify code and to make things work like “magic”.

Please note that this principle does not affect the configurability of the toolbox at all, as these are two completely different aspects. Whereas “convention over configuration” is an important aspect of coding, the configurability of the toolbox is about enhancing the user experience and let the user decide about the toolbox behaviour as much as possible.

A list of conventions useful in context of Matlab™ toolboxes (for a list of actual conventions for the trEPR toolbox have a look at the dedicated page):

• All functions accessible to the user start with the toolbox name.
• All GUI figures have the m-file name as tag.

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