I think the general consensus of many people, myself included, is that it doesn't matter what the specifics are, as long as they're being applied consistently.

I think the general consensus of many people, myself included, is that it doesn't matter what the specifics are, as long as they're being applied consistently. Beyond that, it's a question of optimizing the cost/benefit ratio. The problem with most things that have to be applied manually is that they're also applied inconsistently. It's like Hungarian notation. Over time, it becomes pure noise: you can't rely on it, especially when reading someone else's code, so it's safer to just ignore it. At which point, the convention's cost/benefit is approaching infinity, because its denominator nearly zero. So I'm not sure I care if the absolute cost is small. It's still an almost complete waste of effort. The only place I've ever seen manual conventions applied consistently enough to be useful in a sustainable way is when someone's carved out their own private silo of code that is mostly only touched by them.