General

• Meaningful names should be used, denoting the semantics of the identifier.

• Readability should be favored over brevity.

• Use of underscores, hyphens and other non-alphanumeric characters should be avoided.

• Use of abbreviations or contractions as part of variable names should be avoided (e.g. use "counter" instead of "cntr").

• Only acronyms and initialisms that are generally accepted in the field of computing, broadcasting, etc. may be used.