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Overbars still seem to be the norm though there seems to be no real
standard.
I did find a group of writers in my company who are using the # symbol
instead (PIN#).
Some other options mentioned were _L added to the end of a pin name (PIN_L)
and
engineers still seem to prefer the splat (*PIN).
