“The limits of my language are the limits of my world.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Shared conventions make communication possible.
Language is a set of conventions important due not to any intrinsic property, but due to the extrinsic property that they are shared by others: knight is a better spelling than nait not because the former is more phonetic (which it no longer is, thanks to phonetic drift) but because it will be immediately understood by a billion other people, which the latter will not.
Following are the coding conventions used by the Mythryl project.
You should of course feel free to ignore them in your own coding. Rest assured that we will feel equally free to ignore the results — cleaning up other people’s messes is no fun, and we do this for fun.