• alexdeathway@programming.dev
    1491·
    1 year ago

    First one are method name, second one are status name.

    
def open_file_dialog(self):
       self.dialog_file_open = True
       pass

    Yoda level preference war.

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
      69·
      1 year ago

      I tend to add is to booleans toreally differentiate between a method name and a status.

      def open_file_dialog(self):
    self.dialog_file_is_open = True
    pass

      That way, it’s easier for my dumb brain to spot which is which at a glance.

      • 4wd@programming.dev
        132·
        1 year ago

        In Elixir, we mark statuses by using a question mark at the end of the variable name. Something like this:

        authorized? = user |> get_something() |> ensure_authorized?()

        I like this better than the is_ prefix

          • Faresh@lemmy.mlEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            If it’s like Lisp, then ? is just part of the symbol and doesn’t have any special syntatic meaning. In different Lisps it’s also convention to end predicate names with a ? or with P (p for predicate)

            • cytokine0724@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              1 year ago

              I’m a principal backend engineer routinely writing Ruby for my day job, so I’m familiar, lol. But you can’t do it for local variables and that just sucks. Definitely a +1 for Elixir.