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Subject: Re: The Naming of Arrays
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Date: Wed, 4-Jun-86 10:02:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  4 10:02:00 1986
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~> Dick Grune and the naming of arrays

I, too, have been annoyed by how to name arrays.
I have found that the best thing to do is to use array names incorporating
the singular name of some composite, usually a composite proximate to the
intended use.

Words that are useful are `list', `table', `collection', `group', and, even,
`array'. Although I've never liked naming a thing in terms of its data
structure; it seems too LISPish (harold-and-maude-alist).

Therefore 

    struct word wordlist[99];
    struct word word;
    word = wordlist[i];

I usually find the same thing goes for types as well - I might use struct
wordnode rather than word above.