On Oct 4, 2011, at 6:14 PM, Eric Seidel wrote:
> I thought historical policy was universally against the word "get" in
> function names.
The policy has been to reserve the word get to mean a function that gets a
value in an out argument, as opposed to a function that returns a value, which
we instead name with a noun or adjective describing the value.
> I guess you're suggesting that "get" should only be applied to function names
> which have an out-argument?
Right, that’s what we’ve been doing. But I see now that the rule is not as well
known as I thought.
-- Darin
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