Singular or plural on function that may return more than one item of a list?
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Given a method that returns one or more items from a list, should I name it getListItem, or getListItems? Or, do I avoid the ambiguity and provide both methods? I'm anticipating there being a 50/50 chance of it returning one vs. multiple items.
I'd like to keep my codebase concise, but ideally I wouldn't want to introduce any idiosyncratic or ambiguous naming.
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Given a method that returns one or more items from a list, should I name it getListItem, or getListItems? Or, do I avoid the ambiguity and provide both methods? I'm anticipating there being a 50/50 chance of it returning one vs. multiple items.
I'd like to keep my codebase concise, but ideally I wouldn't want to introduce any idiosyncratic or ambiguous naming.
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There is no answer to that. I vote ongetListItems
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Given a method that returns one or more items from a list, should I name it getListItem, or getListItems? Or, do I avoid the ambiguity and provide both methods? I'm anticipating there being a 50/50 chance of it returning one vs. multiple items.
I'd like to keep my codebase concise, but ideally I wouldn't want to introduce any idiosyncratic or ambiguous naming.
naming-conventions
asked Nov 20 at 14:48
Ro Achterberg
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Given a method that returns one or more items from a list, should I name it getListItem, or getListItems? Or, do I avoid the ambiguity and provide both methods? I'm anticipating there being a 50/50 chance of it returning one vs. multiple items.
I'd like to keep my codebase concise, but ideally I wouldn't want to introduce any idiosyncratic or ambiguous naming.
naming-conventions
naming-conventions
asked Nov 20 at 14:48
Ro Achterberg
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asked Nov 20 at 14:48
Ro Achterberg
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asked Nov 20 at 14:48
Ro Achterberg
165110
asked Nov 20 at 14:48
Ro Achterberg
165110
asked Nov 20 at 14:48
Ro Achterberg
165110
165110
There is no answer to that. I vote ongetListItems
– SandroMarques
Nov 21 at 21:55
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There is no answer to that. I vote ongetListItems
– SandroMarques
Nov 21 at 21:55
There is no answer to that. I vote on
getListItems– SandroMarques
Nov 21 at 21:55
There is no answer to that. I vote on
getListItems– SandroMarques
Nov 21 at 21:55
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There is no answer to that. I vote on
getListItems– SandroMarques
Nov 21 at 21:55