A general purpose tag to cover anything concerning naming, be it files, programming constructs, data etc.
A general purpose tag to cover anything concerning naming, be it files, programming constructs, data etc.
Questions tagged [naming]
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Is using "is" to name Boolean variables bad practice?
Is naming Booleans that start with "is" bad practice now? My manager believes that "isAnything" is outdated and poor practice. Is this true?
myManager.isLame ? correct() : incorrect();
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What is the reason function names are prefixed with an underscore by the compiler?
When I see the assembly code of a C app, like this:
emacs hello.c
clang -S -O hello.c -o hello.s
cat hello.s
Function names are prefixed with an underscore (e.g. callq _printf). Why is this done and what advantages does it…
user142019
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Name for HTTP Request+Response
There's one thing I haven't found in RFC 2616 ("Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1") and that's a "canonical" name for a request/response pair. Is there such thing?
4.1 Message Types:
4.1 Message Types
HTTP messages consist of requests…
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Is there any kind of standard for representing date ranges?
ISO 8601 represents a date as YYYY-MM-DD.
It doesn't seem to offer any recommendation on how to represent a date range, for example:
2013-01-01 => 2013-06-31
Does ISO 8601, or another standard, give a sensible recommendation for representing date…
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Why is one_of() called that?
Why is dplyr::one_of() called that? All the other select_helpers names make sense to me, so I'm wondering if there's an aspect of one_of() that I don't understand.
My understanding of one_of() is that it just lets you select variables using a…
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iPhone Application Name Availability
Is there a way to check whether an iphone application name is available to use? Would a search on iTunes and checking to see if there is an existing application already out there be indicative that an iphone application name is available to use or…
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Interface naming convention Golang
I'll just post my code:
/*
* Role will ALWAYS reserve the session key "role".
*/
package goserver
const (
ROLE_KEY string = "role"
)
type Role string
//if index is higher or equal than role, will pass
type RolesHierarchy []Role
func (r…
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C# .NET instance variable naming convention?
I'm doing a small internship at a business and in their code I find classes that are named like this:
public class FlagsConfig
{
private static FlagsConfig _instance;
}
Is the _instance a naming convention of any sort in C#?
I would ask the…
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When duplicating a target in Xcode, is there any way to set the name that the target will have before or as it is created?
Duplicating a target in Xcode is a great way to create multiple app or framework/library products that have somewhat different features using the same codebase as a result of conditional code controlled by environmental variables set within the…
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Semantic difference between "Find" and "Search"?
When building an application, is there any meaningful difference between the idea of "Find" vs "Search" ? Do you think of them more or less as synonymous?
I'm asking in terms of labeling for application UI as well as API design.
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Renaming SVN repository project name
I have migrated a project from CVS to SVN. Now I need to rename that project. What can be the best possible way to rename it, keeping the all the history intact. The project folder contains some 100 numbers of C and its header files.
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What kind of prefix do you use for member variables?
No doubt, it's essential for understanding code to give member variables a prefix so that they can easily be distinguished from "normal" variables.
But what kind of prefix do you use?
I have been working on projects where we used m_ as prefix, on…
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Is there a recommended naming convention for files that contain only functions/extension methods?
In Java, it is simple: file name for a type is the name of a type plus .java suffix.
In Kotlin, you can write files that don't contain classes. Is there any convention to name them?
And also how would you name unit test classes for those functions?
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Is there a name meaning "not a singleton"?
Is there a name meaning "not a singleton"?
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What does .dist used as an extension of some source code file mean?
Examples in the Zend tutorial:
phpunit.xml.dist
local.php.dist
TestConfig.php.dist
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