Haha, great etymological humor in that Wikipedia link.

A point of clarification... this fails at compile-time:

$comments_ref[0]   = 'foo';  # 2

... while this fails at runtime (assuming that $comments doesn't contain a ref, as implied by the lack of HungDamian suffix):

$comments->[0]     = 'foo';  # 3

I hadn't addressed the situation where a spurious dereferencing operator causes problems, but yes, now that I think about it, I've done that every once in a while. Depending on how rarely the code branch containing the bogus arrow gets accessed, that might produce an unpleasant surprise at an inopportune moment.

Fortunately, thanks to Data::Alias, I can have my spinach and eat it too. I'm persuaded. I'll start using _ref.

But those hash names are going to stay plural for now.

Cheers,

--
Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.com

In reply to Re^2: Perl Best Practices for naming variables by creamygoodness
in thread Perl Best Practices for naming variables by creamygoodness

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