> Just pick one and stick with it. Well, by definition, you've just created a coding standard. We often just start out using the standard of someone who has t

> Just pick one and stick with it. Well, by definition, you've just created a coding standard. We often just start out using the standard of someone who has thought it through. Crockford for JS, Microsoft for C# and Google for Java. If someone raises a complaint, we do consider it but then the onus is on the developer to justify why it should be changed and that means the developer has to have thought out his/her idea, which is what you really want to begin with. If it's something as trivial as marking members with "_" or "m_" then it will be a non starter due to,as you said, it just doesn't matter as long as your consistent.