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Re:SQL style guide by thijsvandien on Monday October 10, 2016 @03:24PM (#12679233)
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?
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Re:SQL style guide by fanf2 on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @04:12AM (#12682536)
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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