[tpm] hash naming convention: singular or plural

[Abram Hindle]

Alexander Anderson wrote:
> Hello Toronto Perl Mongers,
> 
> Names of scalars are usually singular, for example,
> 
>   $month = 'Aug';
> 
> Names of arrays are usually plural, for example,
> 
>   @months = qw(Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec);
> 
> How do you name your hashes, for example,
> 
>   %months = ( Jan => 1, Feb => 2, ..., Dec => 12 );
>   or
>   %month = ( Jan => 1, Feb => 2, ..., Dec => 12 );
> 

IMHO,

You are already indicating scalar/vector by their first character.

Just use a consistent lexicon for your project. Being consistent is more
important than spending a lot of time worrying about how natural and
english your variable name choices sound.

abram