Scripting style: Verbs in function names

Monte Goulding monte at appisle.net
Thu Nov 3 19:43:45 EDT 2016


> On 4 Nov. 2016, at 10:21 am, Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:
> 
> I like Devin's reasoning on this. One of the great benefits we enjoy in using LiveCode is the "English-like" syntax. This is one of LC's hallmark features. As I see it, we should work to preserve it and extend it in our naming of commands and functions.

I can’t help wondering if there’s a general guideline we can apply here where if there’s a strong case for a verb then refactor as a command and if there isn’t then use a function and leverage the implied verb in the statement. I think there may be an exception with a function that returns a mutated form of the first parameter though (arrayEncode, baseConvert etc), however, they could have easily been commands…

Cheers

Monte





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