method names nounVerb or verbNoun

Chris Rebert clp2 at rebertia.com
Fri Feb 5 15:26:38 EST 2010


On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Wanderer <wanderer at dialup4less.com> wrote:
> Which is the more accepted way to compose method names nounVerb or
> verbNoun?
>
> For example voltageGet or getVoltage? getVoltage sounds more normal,
> but voltageGet is more like voltage.Get. I seem to mix them and I
> should probably pick one way and stick with it.

Use properties[1] and just call it `voltage`. Python is not Java [2];
explicit getters/setters are unpythonic.

[1] http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#property
[2] http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html

Cheers,
Chris
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