Coding standards are put in place primarily for maintainability purposes but how far does an organisation/company or induvidual go in relation to coding standards?
Heres my opinion on coding standards: Once the code is some way consistent - that is acceptable enough to me.
Having to define exactly how many lines are between methods, and spacing rules are irrelevant in comparison to the quality of the code that is actually written.
Some open source projects that I have looked at (Castle and NHibernate to name a few) have general coding standards but don't go down to a spacing level.
I recently worked on a project where coding standards were so stringent that we had to run regression tests again due to spacing issues! - The word "practicality" comes to mind
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