Questions tagged [naming-standards]
Naming standards is about defining rules about the use of symbols such as the name of namespaces, packages, modules, types, functions, or variables
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DTO Interfaces naming convention in PHP
It might be that my question would sound a bit stupid but I would like to find the best way for naming my DTO interfaces. In my PHP application I have following DTO types: Simple (which contains a ...
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Common practice where to place "is" word while naming predicate function: at the beginning or in the middle?
There's a lot of free or member predicate-like functions (that returns boolean value) in different programming languages and popular libraries/frameworks that have "is" as a prefix, e.g.: ...
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What would be good alternative function names for "filterHighNumbers"? The word "filter" could go either way [closed]
The problem I noticed is that I wrote a function called filterX which removed any X from a list. Then another engineer came along and wrote a filterY function which kept only the instances of Y in the ...
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Naming a method that does the same thing faster but only approximates the result?
Presume I have a function that does some precise calculation on a large amount of data, call it calculateResult(data). This function gets very slow with increasing size of input. Luckily, I only need ...
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Workaround for digits in beginning of identifier
Suppose I have a std::span-like type, that represents a matrix or an image, or a class modelling a 3d mesh. I would like to say template<class T> class 2d_span; class 3d_mesh; But that would ...
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Can a UUID be called a constant?
From my understanding, a constant is a value which is assigned only once and cannot change at runtime, whereas variables have mutable values which are unpredictable by nature. My question is, to what ...
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Best way to name derived classes when extending its functionality [closed]
I have just recently joined a new company and one of the classes used to log information has not been written properly. So I have been asked to add new functionality to the logger. Rather than ...
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Naming Conventions for microservices
We are currently splitting up our Intranet monolith into multiple (Micro)services. The layout in itself is already finished and we have decided to split them up in a way that there is only ever one ...
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