What's a good way to make a type a plural when writing comments?
When writing comments, I sometimes find myself needing to talk about a type (class, struct, etc.) in plural when writing comments, such as:
/*
* getThings
* Get a list of --> Things <-- from somewhere.
*/
Thing *getThings(void);
The problem is, the type name is singular (namely, Thing ), but I want to talk about them in plural in comments.
If I say Things , it suggests to the reader it's talking about a type called Things , which is not the case. If I say Thing's , it looks awkward because it's not grammatically correct (it's either possessive or "Thing is", not plural). I could talk around the problem and say a list of Thing items
What's a good convention to stick to when writing plurals of types?
Well, depending on the documentation system you're using, you can wrap the name of the type in a special syntax and put the s outside it. For example:
.NET XML comments
Get a list of <see cref="Thing"/>s from somewhere.
doxygen C/C++ comments
Get a list of link Thing endlink s from somewhere.
Not 100% certain on the doxygen variant but it should be something like that.
And if you're not using a particular documentation system and thus have no special comments, I'd do something like:
Get a list of [Thing]s from somewhere.
Or you could use ( ) or { }, depending on preference...
我会在括号中使用's'。
/* Get a list of Thing(s) from somewhere */
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