Classes are my precious

TL;DR: Classes represent concepts. And concepts are singular.

Problems

• Naming

• Code Standards

Solutions

1. Rename classes to singular

Context

Naming things is hard.

We need to agree on certain rules.

Sample Code

Wrong

class Users

Right

class User

Detection

[X] Automatic

This is a syntactic rule.

Tags

• Naming

Conclusion

Name concepts in the singular.

Classes are concepts.

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