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= The Cypher Style Guide
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This is the style guide for the Cypher language, in the context of its standardization through the openCypher project.
This document consists of two main sections: <<Rules>> and <<Recommendations>>.
In <<Rules>>, we list syntax guidelines for composing Cypher queries in a conventional, readability-oriented way.
The examples provided always transform _valid_, but poorly formatted, queries into a different query in the recommended format, whilst retaining the same semantics.
In <<Recommendations>>, we list guidelines that may have an effect on the semantics of queries, such as the way a graph schema is composed through label and relationship types.
Bear in mind that these recommendations will not work after-the-fact: if the graph has been constructed with one set of label and relationship types, queries in the associated workload cannot be re-formatted according to these recommendations without also refactoring the data graph.
== Why is style important?
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