I think looking at a popular open source project in C++ like LLVM may prove valuable http://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html http://llvm.org/docs/CodingStanda

I think looking at a popular open source project in C++ like LLVM may prove valuable http://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html http://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html. Google has a C++ style guide http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x.... I could see a C++ project with many people being difficult without some basic guidelines. Sometimes style guidelines are less about the "best" way and more about consistency for people to be able to work with code they didn't write.