I'm not a big fan of standards, as anyone who's used my now-defunct Xml module could probably tell you (I more or less threw them out the window). There are good practices, but standards are a waste of time because they are inherently limited to the situations they are devised for. Upon encountering a situation your standards cannot account for, you must then break standard and use a practice not yet approved of by your unusually twisted mind.
In short, screw standards, I'll just come up with a style as I go and stick to it throughout a project for the hell of it. I usually end up deviating a fair amount throughout the project, but it's all still coherent and the code does not lose efficiency or readability in favor of unusual rules that need to be bent in order to do anything useful.
Excuse me while I go take a couple more painkillers.
In short, screw standards, I'll just come up with a style as I go and stick to it throughout a project for the hell of it. I usually end up deviating a fair amount throughout the project, but it's all still coherent and the code does not lose efficiency or readability in favor of unusual rules that need to be bent in order to do anything useful.
Excuse me while I go take a couple more painkillers.