[throwawayboise]

This is actually not a new idea at all.

I once worked in a place in the 1990s that took it to such an extreme that every table name, column name, and variable name had to be approved by a naming standards committee before it could go into production. IIRC the committee met once a month, maybe twice? Which was not ideal for the developers but changes only went to production once a month during a "change window" anyway.

Naming conventions can help with code readability, but don't let the process become more important than the goals.

[bjourne]

Not a new idea, but a not well-researched one.