For comparison, quite a lot of ECMAScript function names are nouns, e.g.
Date.now, String.prototype.{substring, indexOf}, etc.
From: Norbert Lindenberg
Sent: August 31, 2012 12:16
To: Marcos Caceres
CC: es-discuss
Subject: Re: i18n API - resolvedOptions
Actually, all options have to be resolved in the constructors, because the
functions returned by the compare and format getters also depend on the results
of the resolution process. resolvedOptions() just packages up the results in a
new object and returns that.
A correct description in verb form would be getResolvedOptions, but that's yet
longer.
Norbert
On Aug 31, 2012, at 5:31 , Marcos Caceres wrote:
> Hi,
> This is a bit of bike shedding.... Currently, the spec defines
> "resolvedOptions" - which is using a noun for a function name. Generally
> speaking, nouns should not be used as function names, only for
> attributes/getters.
>
> I would urge the function be renamed to "resolveOptions()". Dropping the "d"
> makes it a verb and gives the operation a sense of active-voice immediacy. I
> think that more accurately reflects what the method call does (it resolves
> the options on call and returns you an object) VS returning a set of options
> that were resolved in the past.
>
> Kind regards,
> Marcos
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