Re: "TryX" idom for Enumerations

> On Jan 11, 2021, at 6:52 PM, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > > 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? maybeFrom()? > > "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 > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php > <https://www.php.net/unsub.php>