[tony_sologubov]

Hi Steve!

Thanks for raising the question. You are absolutely right that X-Cart's code must follow the standards as you are saying and we want to polish the code to this point. We are not doing it right now, because of other tasks priorities.

This is a time in X-Cart's life when we must rapidly grow and extend functionality. We sacrifice a lot of developer-focused tasks for it, because nobody will care about developer niceties as long as the software does not meet general requirements in terms of functionality.

So, my answer will be:
a) please report such problems in our bug-tracker, because they should be fixed
b) I cannot promise that we will fix such problems shortly, because a lot of other work is more important for X-Cart 5 development at the moment