This document describes the coding standards for Delphi programming as used in Delphi 5Developer’s Guide. In general, this document follows the often “unspoken” formatting guide-lines used by Borland International with a few minor exceptions. The purpose for includingthis document in Delphi 5 Developer’s Guide is to present a method by which developmentteams can enforce a consistent style to the coding they do. The intent is to make it so that everyprogrammer on a team can understand the code being written by other programmers. This isaccomplished by making the code more readable by use of consistency. This document by no means includes everything that might exist in a coding standard.However, it does contain enough detail to get you started. Feel free to use and modify thesestandards to fit your needs. We don’t recommend, however, that you deviate too far from thestandards used by Borland’s development staff. We recommend this because as you bring newprogrammers to your team, the standards that they’re most likely to be most familiar with areBorland’s.