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. >> >> >> >> >> >>> > > > > ----- Steve Hayes Cogent Consulting http://www.cogentconsulting.com.au http://iridescenturchin.wordpress.com/ Mobile: 0403 902 431 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
