Perl Best Practices [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

B.2. Chapter 3, Naming Conventions

• Use grammatical templates when forming identifiers. [Identifiers ]

• Name booleans after their associated test. [Booleans ]

• Mark variables that store references with a _ref suffix. [Reference Variables ]

• Name arrays in the plural and hashes in the singular. [Arrays and Hashes ]

• Use underscores to separate words in multiword identifiers. [Underscores ]

• Distinguish different program components by case. [Capitalization ]

• Abbr idents by prefx. [Abbreviations ]

• Abbreviate only when the meaning remains unambiguous. [Ambiguous Abbreviations ]

• Avoid using inherently ambiguous words in names. [Ambiguous Names ]

• Prefix "for internal use only" subroutines with an underscore. [Utility Subroutines ]