Re: Plural variable naming (or not?)

[beppu]

Am I the only one who uses the singular form for arrays?

[nefertari]

No, you aren't: Some names (i often name variables in german, or mix the languages, this i should change!):
@mathsylist : a name for a list in that i store the recent mathsymbols.
%preprintliste : the matching preprints, stored as a hash, in order to avoid trouble with doubleentries in two files.
@sortierteschluessel: this is plural (sorted keys) for exactly that.
It seems that i either use plural or something like list in the end.

[FoxtrotUniform]

Interesting... I'd have thought that @plural would be more intuitive than @singular_list. Obviously, your mileage varies.

The one place I can see where this would be a distinct advantage is when you're using Perl arrays as different data types. For instance:

my @foo_list;
my @bar_stack;
my @baz_queue;
my @xyzzy_heap;

If these were just plurals, it would be impossible to tell just from the names which one was a stack, or a queue, or whatever -- which could be a very bad thing.

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