Re: "TryX" idom for Enumerations

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021, at 2:27 PM, Ben Ramsey wrote: > > On Jan 10, 2021, at 20:09, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, at 4:40 PM, Mark Randall wrote: > >> On 10/01/2021 21:27, Larry Garfield wrote: > >>> The "a method that begins with try is nullable, so watch out" idiom is > >>> present in C# and Rust, but to my knowledge has never existed in PHP. That doesn't make it > >>> bad; it actually combines quite well with the null coalesce operator to allow for default values, > >>> making a valueOrDefault() method unnecessary. > I have no problem introducing this idiom (or similar). In fact, I welcome it. > > In userland, the same concept is often achieved with methods like > fromOrNull(), and as Mark points out, the word “try” makes > me think > the method should throw an exception if it fails. I’m not advocating > for xOrNull(), though, since I think that smacks of Hungarian > notation, but maybe we can come up with something that is a more > PHP-ish name. ;-) > > “There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, > naming things, and off-by-one errors.” --Phil Karlton > > Cheers, > Ben Do you have a suggestion for a better, more PHP-ish naming convention? "It's what other languages use and they don't have a problem" is a valid argument, but not a slam dunk so alternate naming patterns are on the table. --Larry Garfield