Yes, the method should be called read() - the debate is if it should be Reader or Readable. I prefer the able because it says to me, if something implements Readable, then any methods defined by Readable I can call - regardless of the method name.
It gets more important for interfaces like Partionable, because typically the methods implemented do not do the partitioning (that would be a Partitioner) - they instead return the metadata that allows a “Partitioner” to partition and Partitionable structure. To me, this is a better design in most cases - you don’t want the object doing the actual partitioning. So in Go parlance, the interface would probably be called PartitionMetaDataProvider. > On Jan 18, 2019, at 10:43 AM, Robert Johnstone <r.w.johnst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello, > > Just to paint the bikeshed... > > The -er suffix makes sense for methods that follow the convention of naming > methods after verbs. Forget io.Reader for a moment, and think of os.File. > When you call the method Read, you are asking the instance to read from the > file on disk. myvar.Read can be understood as subject/verb. In this case, > myvar is the reader, but it is passing the data back to you. > > Robert > > > > On Thursday, 17 January 2019 14:48:30 UTC-5, Jakob Borg wrote: > On 16 Jan 2019, at 15:42, Victor Giordano <vituc...@gmail.com <>> wrote: >> >> As far i can get to understand the english language (i'm not a native >> speaker), the "er" seems to denotes or describe things in a more "active >> way" (the thing that they actually do by itself), and the "able" describes >> things in a more "passive way" (the thing that you can "ask it/his/her" to >> do). Do you find this appreciation correct? > > This was a mental stumbling block for me for a long time when I started out > with Go. For me, the "Reader" is the one who calls Read(), so an io.Reader > seemed like the opposite of what I wanted. I would have better understood it > as io.Readee. It works out better if I see the Reader as some sort of > intermediate entity that affects reads on whatever the underlying thing is > you want to read from… Or if I see it as just an interface-indicating > nonsense suffix, like a capital-I prefix… > > //jb > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
