Questions tagged [method-names]
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How to disambiguate links to methods in scaladoc?
I'm documenting a Scala class with overloaded methods. How can I distinguish them when referring to them in scaladoc comments? For example, if I have
/**
* The most important method is [[Doc.foo]].
*/
object Doc {
def foo[A]: A = throw new…
Petr
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Use of special characters in function names
In Ruby, a standard convention is to use a question mark at the end of a method name to indicate the method returns a boolean result:
[].empty? #=> true
Another standard convention is to end a method name with an exclamation point if the method…
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Is there a particular naming convention for Java methods that throw exceptions?
I'm tempted to add a suffix like "Ex" to differentiate methods (with similar signatures) that throw Exceptions from those that don't.
Is there such a convention?
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Is the method naming for property getters/setters standardized in IL?
I have the following two methods that I am wondering if they are appropriate:
public bool IsGetter(MethodInfo method)
{
return method.IsSpecialName
&& method.Name.StartsWith("get_", StringComparison.Ordinal);
}
public bool…
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Is there a technical difference between the terms "length" and "size" (in programming, of course)?
Possible Duplicate:
count vs length vs size in a collection
In Java in particular, on Strings, you call string.length(), whereas in Lists you call list.size(). Is there a technical difference between the two terms, seeing as a String is really…
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How to get the methodname from a known method?
Is it possible to get the name of another method in the same class but without using a manually written string?
class MyClass {
private void doThis()
{
// Wanted something like this
print(otherMethod.name.ToString());
} …
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java - DAO methods convention - overloading or change the method name?
Related to
Standard Naming Convention for DAO Methods
and
DAO class methods naming
questions.
Why the methods in DAO classes are like:
getUserById(int id)
getUserByUsernameAndPassword(String username, String password)
instead of:
getUser(int…
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Bad method names and what it says about code structure
(Apologies in advance if this is a re-post but I didn't find similar posts)
What bad method name patterns have you seen in code and what did it tell you about the code.
For instance, I keep seeing:
public void preform___X___IfNecessary(...);
I…
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Bizzare method signature, with unnamed arguments (obj-c)
I wasn't aware this syntax was valid.
+ (void) methodName:(TypeObject *)typeObject1:(TypeObject *)typeObject2;
Which is then called like so:
[object methodName:obj1:obj2];
I find it ugly and disturbing, but it builds.
Can someone point me at a…
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How to get real method name istead of .ctor?
Hi i have method getting the name of calling method:
public static string GetMethodName()
{
System.Diagnostics.StackTrace trace = new System.Diagnostics.StackTrace();
return trace.GetFrame(1).GetMethod().Name;
}
And…
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Get the name of the current method/function in Python
For now, I got two ways to fetch the name of the current function/method in python
Function based
>>> import inspect
>>> import sys
>>> def hello():
... print(inspect.stack()[0][3])
... print(sys._getframe( ).f_code.co_name)
...
>>>…
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RemoteViews method names
I am creating an App which uses some widgets and I use setInt() method on a remoteView for changing the background source. That´s not a problem, but I wonder where the documentation about the method names is. In the RemoteViews API it is not…
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Get a function name like printed in Chrome console
Considering this code :
var o = {};
o.f = function(){};
new o.f;
Chrome prints o.f {} into the console. Do you know how this o.f part is called? More importantly, is there any way to get this result without using the console? I'd like to extract…
user1636522
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Is there a way to get a method name dynamically in c#?
I have a case where I pass a method name to a function as a string, but I don't want it hard-coded.
for example
void MyMethodName()
{
// some code
}
void SomeOtherMethod()
{
…
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Which of these approaches to method naming is better and why?
In my app, we have Users who can perform actions on one another - like poking on Facebook.
I'm writing the methods just now and am not really sure which approach to take.
I mean, I know they're both acceptable but is there a more idiomatic…
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