Submission + - Best and Worst Coding Standards? 1
An anonymous reader writes: If you've been hired by a serious software development house chances are one of your early familiarization tasks was to read company guidelines on coding standards and practices. Some basic guidelines such as gotos being off limits except in specific circumstances or that code should be indented with tabs rather than spaces or vice versa were laid out, and perhaps some more exotic or less intuitive practices as well. Maybe continue or multiple return statements are off limits. What standards have you found worked well practice, increasing code readability and maintainability, and which only looked good on the proverbial paper?
