One of the standards says to use "items" as the name for collections that "store sets of like-data". I think that's too prescriptive and - more importantly - goes against the earlier standard that says "use meaningful, semantic names". The word "items" is neither meaningful nor semantic.
In the example provided a better name for the "items" collection might be "associates" or "people" or "executiveTeamMembers", etc.
One of the standards says to use "items" as the name for collections that "store sets of like-data". I think that's too prescriptive and - more importantly - goes against the earlier standard that says "use meaningful, semantic names". The word "items" is neither meaningful nor semantic.
In the example provided a better name for the "items" collection might be "associates" or "people" or "executiveTeamMembers", etc.
I recommend we remove this standard.