February 2011
1 post
sticking ? where it doesn't belong
One fondness I have in common with Ruby, Clojure, and even Coffeescript is a syntactic idiom of ending the names of functions and methods that return a false value with a ?.
The idea is to immediately convey the intent of the function by means of an expectation you’ve developed reading natural language. When you read something that ends in a ?, you intuitively assume, without thinking,...
