Unless you grew up using English I suppose.

Aren't we trying to make our code more readable, rather than more terse?

On 10/03/2009, at 4:14 PM, Pat Allan wrote:

>
> It's general ruby best-practices, I think. You don't need the 'is'
> prefix, as the punctuation provides the same effect, and much more
> cleanly.
>
> --  
> Pat
>
> On 10/03/2009, at 4:12 PM, Torm3nt wrote:
>
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> Is this just personal preference?
>>
>> I was using the method names to exaggerate the example =)
>>
>> But now that I know you hate it WELL...
>>
>> heh
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Tim Lucas <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> if is_it_good?('apple')
>>>  return it_is_awesome!
>>> end
>>
>> Get rid of any "it_is" or "is" in boolean methods please.
>>
>> empty? not is_empty?
>>
>> So something like:
>>
>> def respond_to_bad_joke
>>  if @apple.good?
>>    eat @apple
>>  else
>>    throw @apple
>>  end
>> end
>>
>> A real example would be much better.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>
>
> >

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