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From: dick@tjalk.UUCP (Dick Grune)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Naming of arrays - Summary
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Date: Sat, 5-Jul-86 16:01:58 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul  5 16:01:58 1986
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About a month ago I asked how you name arrays, singular or plural. I got
9 responses. Summary:

1.	Almost everybody agrees that nothing is ever plural.

2.		Form used (normalized)			Number of proponents
	use suffix:	struct word word = word_vec[n];		4
	use abbev.:	struct word wrd = word[n];		3
	use plural:	struct word word = words[n];		1
	use operator:	REF WORD word = n TH_OF words;		1

I think I'll use possibility 2 more systematically: it is readable and 
concise.

Thank you all for your cooperation,
					Dick Grune
					Vrije Universiteit
					de Boelelaan 1081
					1081 HV  Amsterdam
					the Netherlands