Questions tagged [naming-standards]
Naming standards is about defining rules about the use of symbols such as the name of namespaces, packages, modules, types, functions, or variables
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DTO Interfaces naming convention in PHP
It might be that my question would sound a bit stupid but I would like to find the best way for naming my DTO interfaces. In my PHP application I have following DTO types:
Simple (which contains a ...
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How to name uppercase variables when using the camelCase convention?
I am writing a C# class and one of the fields is an API endpoint. Being that API is an acronym and is written in all uppercase letters, what is the correct way to name the field _APIEndpoint, ...
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Common practice where to place "is" word while naming predicate function: at the beginning or in the middle?
There's a lot of free or member predicate-like functions (that returns boolean value) in different programming languages and popular libraries/frameworks that have "is" as a prefix, e.g.:
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Naming multiple Entities of same collection (with different sets of fields, few less, few more)
Say I have a complex entity (class) called Quote.
We have one representation that has just 3-4 fields used to hold minimal amount of data to identify a quote. Is there any convention to call an entity ...
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What would be good alternative function names for "filterHighNumbers"? The word "filter" could go either way [closed]
The problem I noticed is that I wrote a function called filterX which removed any X from a list. Then another engineer came along and wrote a filterY function which kept only the instances of Y in the ...
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Is usage of "with" prefix acceptable for filter methods that are specific(not generic) [closed]
I am not a native english speaker so I have the following question related to naming I have a class that has generic filter method of type:
filter(Predicate predicate)
In the same class I have some ...
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Naming a method that does the same thing faster but only approximates the result?
Presume I have a function that does some precise calculation on a large amount of data, call it calculateResult(data).
This function gets very slow with increasing size of input.
Luckily, I only need ...
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What's the convention to name a REST endpoint that returns a boolean?
I have an endpoint that returns whether a resource is valid or not (true or false):
GET resource/{id}/valid
Where the returned value is not a field of the resource and is dynamic, it does not depend ...
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Workaround for digits in beginning of identifier
Suppose I have a std::span-like type, that represents a matrix or an image, or a class modelling a 3d mesh. I would like to say
template<class T>
class 2d_span;
class 3d_mesh;
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Best Practice - Avoid naming class and field the same?
When modeling classes I always have stumbled on the problem that the class has a field with the same name. Look at this example:
class Name {
string meaning;
string language;
string name; /...
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Can a UUID be called a constant?
From my understanding, a constant is a value which is assigned only once and cannot change at runtime, whereas variables have mutable values which are unpredictable by nature.
My question is, to what ...
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Does it make sense to use the word 'Set' in a class as an umbrella term for both sets and individual items?
For instance, if I'm modeling a book collection and I want to be able to represent sets of books that come together (like an encyclopedia series), the sets may share a lot of properties that ...
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Best way to name derived classes when extending its functionality [closed]
I have just recently joined a new company and one of the classes used to log information has not been written properly. So I have been asked to add new functionality to the logger.
Rather than ...
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Naming convention for Boolean arguments
In many languages, the convention for naming Booleans is typically to prefix them with "is", "has" or "can". This convention seems to be applied mostly to fields and ...
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Naming Conventions for microservices
We are currently splitting up our Intranet monolith into multiple (Micro)services. The layout in itself is already finished and we have decided to split them up in a way that there is only ever one ...
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