On Wednesday 10 June 2015 15:14:07 Hausmann Simon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think renaming the getter to lastError is nice! I however do like error as
> signal name and it looks good in qml as onError:...
"onError" screams of Basic to me...
ON ERROR GO SUB foo
or worse
ON ERROR RESUME
I don't mind the getter still being named "error" because it's a noun and we
name our properties (and thus the getters) after nouns.
The problem is the signal: the coding style is that signals are named after
verbs in the past, indicating that something happened. "error" has no verb in
the past. Even "errored" would be better, though that's unusual.
I think "error" + verb in the past is best, so here are my suggestions, in no
particular order:
errorHappened
errorCaught
errorEncountered
errorOccurred (people will get the double r wrong)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/occured
errorFound
errorDetected
errorDiscovered
errorNoticed
errorSeen
errorObserved
alternatively, with the verb in the active:
caughtError
foundError
detectedError
discoveredError
noticedError
sawError
observedError
If I break out the thesaurus, then we also have
errorBefell
errorCameAbout
errorTookPlace
errorMaterialized
errorRemarked (reminds me of [1])
ranIntoError
ranAcrossError
cameAcrossError
remarkedError
chancedUponError (even more so!)
pickedUpError
[1] https://www.addedbytes.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
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Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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