[Python-ideas] What about allowing '?' in method names?

Xavier Ho contact at xavierho.com
Thu Aug 6 09:50:34 CEST 2009


On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg <
tleeuwenburg at gmail.com> wrote:

> this could be nicer than prefixing things with is, and makes things clearer
> in some cases, e.g.
>
> def shouldSomethingHappenFlag(self, context):
>    if 'relevant' in context:
>      return True
>
>    return False
>
> vs
>
> def shouldSomethingHappen?(self, context):
>   if 'relevant' in context:
>     return True
>   return False
>
> I just think it looks nicer, and is a good hint that a true/false or other
> kind of flag is likely to come back.
>

What about

hasSomethingHappened(self, context)

or

isRelevant(self, context)

Either way.. I think ? has better uses though.

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