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What are some good C++ coding standards?

Thank you for reading this answer rather than just trying to set your own coding standards.

But please don't ask this question on comp.lang.c++. Nearly every software engineer has, at some point, felt that coding standards are or can be used as a "power play." Furthermore some attempts to set C++ coding standards have been made by those unfamiliar with the language and/or paradigm, so the standards end up being based on what was the state-of-the-art when the standards setters where writing code. Such impositions generate an attitude of mistrust for coding standards.

Obviously anyone who asks this question on comp.lang.c++ wants to be trained so they don't run off on their own ignorance, but nonetheless the answers tend to generate more heat than light.