Thank you for reading this answer rather than just trying to set your own coding standards. But please don't ask this question on Usenet. Nearly every software engineer has, at some point, felt that coding standards are or can be used as a 'power play'. Furthermore some attempts to set C++ coding standards have been made by those unfamiliar with the language and/or paradigm, so the standards end up being based on what *was* the state-of-the-art when the setters where coding. Such impositions generate an attitude of mistrust for coding standards. Obviously anyone who asks this question on Usenet wants to be trained so they *don't* run off on their own ignorance, but nonetheless the answers tend to generate more heat than light.
