Having a consistent naming convention for C++ (and other programming languages) has been a challenge for years, mainly due to different developers have different styles, or just simply, different naming conventions seemingly are considered best for the particular type of problem to solve.

Nevertheless, it is always good to be “as consistent as possible”.

The first hit of Google search return me this C++ Programming Style Guidelines documentation by geosoft.no which I quite like.

At the time of writing this it consists of 94 high level guidelines. I have just had a read through it (took me about 30-40 minutes) and found it mostly agreeable. Especially the way we name variables and types, and the way we indent our code, etc. (it is natural to have opinions against certain guidelines!)

Like all things in life, there isn’t such thing called “one size fit all”. I believe this guideline however, would help reducing 80% of the pain that we go through in figuring out how to write consistent C++ codes. (I still have Scott Meyers’s Effective C++ book to read yet!)