Developers of Sympa

[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

FYI.

PerlMonks: Getter and Setter Function Names
  http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=249433

On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:06:20 +0900
IKEDA Soji <address@concealed> wrote:

> > Fourth, it breaks another good practice, which considers than each 
> > method name should be following an explicit naming rule, the more usual 
> > being 'action_object' (for instance "send_message", "execute_query', 
> > etc...). What does means $robot->main_menu_custom_button_3_target() ?
> > 
> > Moreover, those accessors being read only, they'd better get named 
> > 'get_something()' than 'something()'. You don't need to be a genious to 
> > understand than there is something wrong in 
> > '$robot->get_home("/var/lib")', whereas '$robot->home("/var/lib")' is 
> > more ambiguous.
> 
> This is rather a matter of preference, I suppose.
> 
> Previous notation was:
>   Sympa::Configuration::get_robot_conf("robot.name", "home")
> Someones prefer to:
>   $robot->get_conf("home")
> or:
>   $robot->get_home()
> Others do:
>   $robot->home
> 
> I love the last notation without redundancy: I feel "get_"
> is not required because it is obvious from the context.



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