--- title: Code Standards | daily.dev description: A developer shares practical opinions on code standards for teams, covering function and variable naming conventions, header idempotency, global variable... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/code-standards-dmx82svob twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Code Standards | daily.dev og:description: A developer shares practical opinions on code standards for teams, covering function and variable naming conventions, header idempotency, global variable... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/code-standards-dmx82svob og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DmX82SvOB.png og:image:alt: Code Standards og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Code Standards **[Cain on Games](https://daily.dev/sources/cainongames)** · 17 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer shares practical opinions on code standards for teams, covering function and variable naming conventions, header idempotency, global variable management, documentation practices, and the long-standing debate between warnings and errors in error handling. Uses game development examples to illustrate how poor standards (like ambiguous method names or swallowing errors as warnings) can cause cascading bugs and wasted team effort. Concludes that having any consistent standard is better than none. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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