Give meaning and explanation with the fewest number of characters in a form that is most accepted by your team or community at large.
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Naming Convention for Dedicated Thread Locking objects
A relatively minor question, but I haven't been able to find official documentation or even blog opinion/discussions on it.
Simply put: when I have a private object whose sole purpose is to serve for ...
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vote
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Is it bad practice to use the same name for arguments and members?
Sometimes I write constructor code like
class X
{
public:
X( const int numberOfThingsToDo ) :
numberOfThingsToDo( numberOfThingsToDo )
{
}
private:
int numberOfThingsToDo;
};
or in C#
...
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vote
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External file (images, sounds) naming convention at Xcode
What is better naming conventions at Xcode regardng External File
(images, sounds) etc?
Is there any guideline from vendor Apple?
As we store our projects at SVN, is there any complicity from Hosted
...
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votes
1answer
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Naming a class that processes orders
I'm in the midst of refactoring a project. I've recently read Clean Code, and want to heed some of the advice within, with particular interest in Single Responsibility Principle (SRP).
Currently, ...
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votes
2answers
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Naming variables with fixed point units
What should I name a variable that has units with a fixed point?
int herpLimitLo_psig2 = 6000; // 60.00 psig
int derpLimitLoPsigwithtwodigits;
int herpLimitHiPsigfixedtwo;
int ...
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votes
4answers
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How to avoid general names for abstract classes?
In general it's good to avoid words like "handle" or "process" as part of routine names and class names, unless you are dealing with (e.g.) file handles or (e.g.) unix processes. However abstract ...
2
votes
2answers
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Case Class naming convention
In my recent adventures in Scala, I've found case classes to be a really nice alternative to enums when I need to include a bit of logic or several values with them. I often find myself writing ...
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votes
4answers
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Why are cryptic short identifiers still so common in low-level programming?
There used to be very good reasons for keeping instruction / register names short. Those reasons no longer apply, but short cryptic names are still very common in low-level programming.
Why is this? ...
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votes
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How do you name your personal libraries?
I'm pretty bad with naming things.
The only name I can every generically come up with is 'helper'. Say, if I have a header file that contains helping functions for manipulating paths, I tend to put ...
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votes
2answers
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Proper Method name for XML builder [closed]
I think this is the right stack for this.
I have a helper class which builds CAML queries (SharePoint XML for getting list items from SQL)
There is one method that is flexibly used to build the ...
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votes
3answers
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Naming a “do X if needed” method
What is a good way to name a method that checks if X needs to be done, and does X it if necessary?
For example, how to name a method that updates a user list if new users have logged in? ...
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votes
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In what language should I name my business classes?
I'm requesting best practice with this question. This is only an issue if the customer company is strictly national has a native language other than English, I think.
If the customer has a lot of ...
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votes
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What are the benefits of prefixing function parameter names with p*?
I often see projects (in Java projects and teams using Eclipse) that prefix function parameters with p.
For example
public void filter (Result pResult) ...
I personally don't see any benefit in ...
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votes
2answers
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Name of a class that creates a bunch of classes for a process
We all know that the hardest parts of computer science deal with cache invalidation and naming things; my problem is the latter.
I have a process that raises events when various things happen. Rather ...
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votes
5answers
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What do you call classes without methods?
What do you call classes without methods?
For example,
class A
{
public string something;
public int a;
}
Above is a class without any methods. Does this type of class have a special name?
