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Re: ?-suffix for booleans... good-idea? or bad-idea?


From: Thompson, David
Subject: Re: ?-suffix for booleans... good-idea? or bad-idea?
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:23:23 -0400

Hey,

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Christopher Allan Webber
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> What do people think?  I'm struggling with deciding what's the right
> thing for my own code, but leaning towards "we shouldn't use the ?
> suffix for just boolean values".

My convention is that anything that evaluates to either #t or #f has a
'?' at the end.  Thus both predicates and flag variables are named
like this.  Using 'is-' or something like that is just how languages
that don't allow punctuation in symbols workaround the limitation.
Ruby is particularly annoying because while a method name can have a
question mark at the end, a variable name cannot.

tl;dr - Good idea!

- Dave



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