From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-01-19T01:34:25+09:00
Subject: Re: The most recommended way of naming methods in Ruby

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Shadowfirebird
<shadowfirebird@gmail.com> wrote:
>> - Interrogative methods get phrased as questions:
>>   obj.date_today?
>>   obj.name?
>>   obj.calculation_done?
>
> As you said; but I would only use this interrogative form myself if the method returned true/false.  That's how it works in core Ruby?

It's more relaxed since you can use any object reference as boolean
value.  For example, you may do

class X
  attr_accessor :name
  alias name? name
end

if the test should return a trueish value if the name is set (actually
not nil and not false).

Kind regards

robert


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