
It is the intention that all code adhere to this standard. However, do not assume that this document is any less important or should be treated any less lightly than its drier cousins.

Some standards documents are so dry as to be about as interesting as reading the white pages. Hopefully this document is actually readable. We have tried to actually think about the relative merits of each alternative but inevitably some personal preferences have come into play.

Inevitably, there are many places in this document where we have simply had to make a choice between two or more equally valid alternatives. This document is a working document - it is not designed to meet the requirement that we have "a" coding standard but instead is an acknowledgement that we can make our lives much easier in the long term if we all agree to a common set of conventions when writing code.

17 Specifying Particular Control Variants - NOT.3.2 Name body casing does not apply to prefixes and suffixes.
