Hey you coders

[prog]

These questions aren't language-specific; consider the questions as pseudocode. Pretend that the underscores are actually studlyCaps if you'd like.

Also, don't worry about return values of the mutators, which is a separate question.



[Poll #875101]

Comments

[wrog]

method names that look like variable names.

while this sort of thing does bother me, I'm not sure it's the right argument. get_foo() could be doing all sorts of random things behind the scenes and you'll never know.

I think the real argument against having the same method used as accessor and mutator is the same argument against having the same-named method doing entirely semantically different things depending on the type of an argument or the presence/absence of an optional argument. If munge(x) does something different from munge(), really have no business giving it the same name.

I also hate studly caps. If you're going to have multiple words in your variable names, then, dammit, have actual multiple words complete with spaces to make them legible -- that is what you need the underscores for. As for them being ugly, ugliness is in the eye of the beholder.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

If you're going to have multiple words in your variable names, then, dammit, have actual multiple words complete with spaces to make them legible -- that is what you need the underscores for.

Real programmers use hyphens. :)