Thread:Manual talk:Coding conventions/eg prefix for extension config variables/reply (3)

It's not that it's not best practice, it's that it snuck into the coding conventions under the radar, people read it as gospel, and now we've got $eg and ef all over the place when nobody ever really recommended it to begin with.

You can call your config globals $the_most_awsome_variable_in_the_world if you really wanted to, it doesn't matter in a practical sense.