Timeline for Naming a "do X if needed" method
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| Jul 18, 2018 at 14:26 | comment | added | Mark Canlas | Six years later, I am a different programmer, with slightly more knowledge of Haskell things. I no longer endorse this answer, haha. I guess my idea at the time was to use the word "maybe" to signify that the function handles some sort of optionality. I still do that sometimes (e.g. Option[A] => B is called maybeToB) | |
| Aug 21, 2012 at 17:59 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | I suppose if I understood Haskell better, this might make more sense. Corollary: If this is used in a language other than Haskell, it will only be understood by those who know Haskell. | |
| Aug 21, 2012 at 17:58 | history | answered | Mark Canlas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |