I had to contemplate my answer for a while. I agree that there should be coding standards, but perhaps I should have been more clear: it is common for shops th

I had to contemplate my answer for a while. I agree that there should be coding standards, but perhaps I should have been more clear: it is common for shops that care a great deal about code formatting, not to care - perhaps not to even know - about coding standards which can avoid bugs. I had in mind specifically one shop that was very, very picky about its comments, but no one other than I had so much as heard of a C++ smart pointer.