[microcolonel]

No, breaking them may be. You don't need a good reason to follow a convention, since conventions themselves are good reasons, if you have no compelling reason /not/ to follow the convention, you should stick with it. This is why people use Helveticoids.

Just because you have a facetious comment to drop in doesn't mean it's correct.

[normloman]

But in order to understand when and how to use conventions, we have to know the reasons why it exists in the first place (so we may judge whether the same reasons apply to the problem at hand). This is what I meant by my comment. If you don't know the reasons for the convention in the first place, you're doomed to applying the same convention in situations where it doesn't make sense.