I’ve always struggled somewhat with finding the right name for map-like variables. Naming things is hard, but surely it’s redundant to name your map thingMap (as in Map<Thing> thingMap = new ...), especially in languages that are strongly-typed.

I try to name my maps XToY, where X is key and Y is value, and the Internet seems to agree, but this doesn’t make much sense either if my keys and values are expressive types. In other words, if I have Map<SocialSecurityNumber, Name>, then it doesn’t help much to name the variable SsnToName. But if I just have a Map<String, Integer> then a variable named nameToCount is useful.

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