If your varnames were shorter more obvious, it'd look different Re: Perl Best Practices for naming variables, About the use of the plural form for the name of variables, Re^3: What would be the easier way, Re^8: What would be the easier way, Re: Cool way to parse Space Separated Value and CSV files, Re: Perl Best Practices for naming variables, Re: What are the most basic, generic aspects of programming?, Pronounceable syntax or beloved punctuation?, How do you pronounce variable names?, How do I pronounce all this stuff, How do you pronounce "::"?,

$main $region $metric $hash %res @ymDates 

$$main{$hash}{$reg}{MetricType}{$$res{Location}}{$ymDates[$start]} = $
+$main{$hash}{$reg}{MetricType}{$$res{Location}}{$ymDates[$start]} + $
+$res{Value};

$$main{$hash}{$reg}{MetricType}{$$res{Location}}{$ymDates[$start]} += 
+$$res{Value};

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Of course, its harder to come up with varnames without good context :) But mainhash and hashtype stand out as having too many generics not easily substituted :)

In reply to Re: $var{el} += 1 vs $var{el} = $var{el} + 1 (varnames) by Anonymous Monk
in thread $var{el} += 1 vs $var{el} = $var{el} + 1 by banesong

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