Re:Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev s...
by withinboredom on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:03PM
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I thought it was DetermineFoo?
Anyway. To me, DetermineFoo doesn't sound like a getter and seems like it might even possibly mutate some states. So, I suspect creating a GetFoo would be orthogonal to deprecating DetermineFoo. This means DetermineFoo might only Get a Foo by side-effect. That's why I would probably ignore it; simply because DetermineFoo might be a better name, in my opinion.
New behaviors occur all the time in software, but it doesn't mean we need to be rigid with naming things.
Anyway. To me, DetermineFoo doesn't sound like a getter and seems like it might even possibly mutate some states. So, I suspect creating a GetFoo would be orthogonal to deprecating DetermineFoo. This means DetermineFoo might only Get a Foo by side-effect. That's why I would probably ignore it; simply because DetermineFoo might be a better name, in my opinion.
New behaviors occur all the time in software, but it doesn't mean we need to be rigid with naming things.