Raymond Lewallen

Framework Design, Agile Coach, President Oklahoma City Developers Group, Microsoft MVP C#, TDD, Continuous Integration, Patterns and Practices, Domain Driven Design, Speaker, VB.Net, C# and Sql Server

Oddly named and funny method names

Brad has a post on "Best" method names ever. There are some pretty good ones in there, and sure to be some more. Go to Brad Abram's blog and post some of your favorites.

If you want to know one of my favs, my current project has function "f" that takes "this" as a parameter.

Published Jan 10 2005, 10:38 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Comments

John Wood said:

Well... if it's *your* project, why don't you just change it :)

# January 10, 2005 6:36 AM

Raymond Lewallen said:

Its not "my" project, I wasn't being literal. Someone else is paying for it, so its theirs. :) I thought about changing it once, but its been here since before I came to the project and I kinda like being able to "f(this)" when I really need to. :D

# January 10, 2005 6:44 AM

Gordon Smith said:

I know it's probably obvious, but the F most likely meant that the function returned a boolean value. The fact that it took a this pointer is irrelavent.

# January 11, 2005 2:38 PM

Raymond Lewallen said:

Actually, the function converts text and replaces some characters. My best guess has always been the "f" stood for function. The odd thing is, "f" is a subroutine that takes "this" by reference and has no return value.

# January 11, 2005 2:44 PM

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About Raymond Lewallen

Working primarily in the public sector during his career, Raymond has designed and built several high profile enterprise level applications for all levels of the government. Raymond now works as a solutions architect for EMC. Raymond is an agile coach, Microsoft MVP C# and also president of the Oklahoma City Developers Group and Oklahoma Agile Developers Group. Raymond spends a lot of his time learning and teaching such things as Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, Design Patterns and Extreme Programming practices and principles, to name a few. Raymond is also an advocate of Alt.Net. Raymond is primarily a framework guy, so don't ask him anything about UI :)