On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 4:10 AM ducasse <steph...@netcourrier.com> wrote:
> > > > On 11 Sep 2019, at 04:07, James Foster <smallt...@jgfoster.net> wrote: > > > > Would use of ? and ! in unary/keyword selectors be convention or somehow > required? If simply convention, then we should start with renaming testing > methods to be named is* or has*. > > flag1 := anInteger even. “not good" > > flag2 := anInteger isEven. “better" > > flag3 := anInteger even?. “how much better?” > > flag4 := #(1 2 3) includes?: 2. “how much better?” > > I think that I would use ? mainly for unary message > > Now I’m sure that if you look carefully some people use > > include > for the action > includes > for the tests > > I took include as an example and this is super not intention revealing. > > >> lineUpBlockBrackets > > lineUpBlockBrackets? > Now I will rewrite them all as shouldLineUpBlockBrackets or > isLineUpBlockBrackets and to me for unary message ? makes it a lot better. > > Hi Stef, I have been facing this ambiguity a lot too. And my workaround, most of the times, was also to prefer the "question" method with #should. #is just doesn't sound right in my cases, but #should does sound good in most of them. I would still like to find a better one, but for the moment, in my recent years, I am stuck with #should. -- Mariano Martinez Peck Email: marianop...@gmail.com Twitter: @MartinezPeck LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-martinez-peck <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-mart%C3%ADnez-peck/> Blog: https://marianopeck.wordpress.com/
