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To: internals@lists.php.net,Ryan Pallas <derokorian@gmail.com>
CC: Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Comparable
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 31 January 2017 23:02:07 GMT+00:00, Ryan Pallas <derokorian@gmail=2Ecom>=
 wrote:
>I would say compareTo makes sense, because that's what you're asking
>the
>method to do=2E Methods aren't usually past tense as it would seem weird=
=2E

To be specific, methods are generally named as "imperative" phrases, becau=
se they are instructing the object in question to do something=2E Read the =
"->" as "I would like you to", and you get "$foo, I would like you to compa=
reTo $bar"=2E

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?")=2E "withFoo" is also common, as shorthand fo=
r "getCloneWithFoo" - but note it doesn't have a verb at all=2E

Regards,

--=20
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]