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		thijsvandien on Oct 10, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SQL style guide It makes me curious if you apply the same rule to variable names in (other) programming, when they contain multiple items of a kind (e.g. arrays, lists, sets and so on). `FrequentCustomerArray` rather than `FrequentCustomers` ? If not, why is that different?

fanf2 on Oct 11, 2016 [–]

It isn't different. There's a conflict between using the collection as a whole

 map(foo, FrequentCustomers)

and using a member

 foo(FrequentCustomer[0])

Perl has plural / singular inflection :-)

 map foo($_), @FrequentCustomer; foo($FrequentCustomer[0]);

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