Why is so hard to follow coding guidelines?

Have you ever thought about that? How many times have you found code that, either doesn’t follow any rule or, simply, there is no rule for that case? So far, I have been working for different companies and, I have found these kind of problems. There could be different reasons, incomplete coding guidelines, misunderstood guidelines…

This week I have found this interesting article written by Nathan Myers (he has participated in the ISO/ANSI C++ Standard committee since 1993). He explains several cases that are not usually handled by all the style guidelines out there.

C++ Style Guidelines - A coding standard for C++ software developers and maintainers.

Good luck !