From: dagbrown@... (Dave Brown)
Date: 2004-03-24T06:39:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Need some advice on PickAxe II

In article <40607376.2000802@infofiend.com>,
Ben Giddings  <bg-rubytalk@infofiend.com> wrote:
: Trying to understand your religion here.  If both methods and variables 
: are named with underscores, not camel case how do you distinguish beween 
: a method that instructs something to read a certain number, and a 
: variable which keeps track of how many times something was read. 
: read_number vs. read_number.

read_number <= reads a number
number_read <= number of times something was read.

If an attribute name is a verb (or verb phrase), it does something.  If
it's a noun, it is something.

Program for humans, not for computers.

--Dave