•Re: Plural variable naming (or not?)

I support $singular and @plurals as a general convention. However, for hashes, I tend to think of hashes as providing a mapping function between a key and its value, so I frequently name it as a f() style, as in %last_name_for or %last_name_of or %has_subentries. That makes it clear to the reader that I'm holding a mapping in that hash.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re^2: Plural variable naming (or not?) by Jeffrey Kegler (Hermit) on Jan 26, 2016 at 21:57 UTC
For the $singular and @plurals, I had independently come to Randal's style. I haven't used his style for hashes, but it looks good and I am going to try it.	[reply]
Re^3: Plural variable naming (or not?) by merlyn (Sage) on Jan 28, 2016 at 21:13 UTC
Only a mere 14 years later! -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.	[reply]
Re^4: Plural variable naming (or not?) by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jan 28, 2016 at 23:38 UTC
Nice to see you! :P	[reply]