Timeline for Intentional misspellings to avoid reserved words
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| May 11, 2015 at 1:29 | comment | added | maaartinus | @GoloRoden According to Merriam-Webster it's not a verb, but see this answer. | |
| Jan 15, 2014 at 14:16 | comment | added | Golo Roden | Yes, that's right. The point I wanted to make was basically just that union is no verb, but an operation should be described by a verb (IMHO). | |
| Jan 15, 2014 at 14:13 | comment | added | Fred Foo |
@GoloRoden I've never heard anyone say they were "uniting" two sets when computing the union. It's just not part of the lingo. "Merge" would be better, but a merge method would still need documentation explicitly stating that it implements union and was renamed for purely technical reasons.
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| Jan 15, 2014 at 13:01 | comment | added | Golo Roden | @larsmans I'm not a native English speaker, so forgive me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK union is a noun, not a verb. If it describes an operation, why not call it unite and the naming problem is gone? Because, at least for my understanding, you don't union two sets, you unite them into a union. Am I missing something here? | |
| Jan 7, 2013 at 13:45 | comment | added | vartec |
OTOH, cls is standard argument name for class method. Also for example in Django objects have .id attribute, which of course conflicts with id built-in function.
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| Mar 26, 2011 at 10:17 | comment | added | Fred Foo |
@Wayne: How are you going to name the union operation in a union-find structure when union is a keyword (as in C)? Are you going to call it foo just because it shouldn't look like union?
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| Mar 26, 2011 at 3:41 | comment | added | Wayne Johnston | I feel this is really poor advice from a style guide. If your attribute name is so close to a keyword, you should find a better name. Simply sticking an underscore on the end doesn't add any meaning and make's it likely to confuse the next guy that reads the code. | |
| Mar 25, 2011 at 20:21 | history | answered | Ryan | CC BY-SA 2.5 |