Ask HN: Looking for a talk on naming things
I remember seeing a talk by a man online that covered naming things. One of the points he made was that prefixing a method with get for accessing a property is actually weird.
I don't remember the exact arguments he made, which is why I'm looking for it.
An example was that get could mean
> to go after, take hold of, and bring (something) for one's own or for another's purposes; fetch
which then makes no sense for a property because you're not fetching it in the sense that it's not at the other place after you fetched it. Compare it with getting the milk.
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I'd suggest reading the book Clean Code, for some insight on how to write, well clean code ;)
Chapter 2 covers naming conventions
Also note that conventions are different for different languages.
You can also look up the Google style guides for Java, Python, etc...
Chapter 2 covers naming conventions
Also note that conventions are different for different languages.
You can also look up the Google style guides for Java, Python, etc...