Re: [RFC] Comparable

On 31 January 2017 23:02:07 GMT+00:00, Ryan Pallas <derokorian@gmail.com> wrote: >I would say compareTo makes sense, because that's what you're asking >the >method to do. Methods aren't usually past tense as it would seem weird. To be specific, methods are generally named as "imperative" phrases, because they are instructing the object in question to do something. Read the "->" as "I would like you to", and you get "$foo, I would like you to compareTo $bar". The only real exception I can think of is boolean tests like "isFoo" and "hasFoo", which are hard to put succinctly in imperative form (Ruby instead uses the convention of "foo?"). "withFoo" is also common, as shorthand for "getCloneWithFoo" - but note it doesn't have a verb at all. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]