Naming convention

PHP
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http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DontCreateVerbClasses

Is using verbs considered bad practice?

What do you use, nouns or verbs? And why?

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Hi…

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yours, Marcus

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As long as it makes sense to apply names like that, sure.

Now that I look back on some classes I built, I’ve used both nouns and verbs, but it depends on whether the class is primarily a data structure class (something that stores a collection of data), or an action class (a class that processes something). It that case, it looks like I tended to apply nouns for data structure classes, and verbs for action classes.

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To clear up some confusion made by me. The example above with reader, listener and finder was supposed to just be a part of the class name. Therefor UserFinder and FileReader could be appropriate names.

Lastcraft: You mention “role based naming”, do you have any articles on that subject on hand? Thanks in advance. Can`t seem to find what I want through google.

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There isn`t any material online that I can read in the meantime?

I`ve tried searching, but no luck.

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That`s sounds reasonable for functions, but I was more thinking about class names. Is using reader, listener, finder etc. okey for names?

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​It depends. Use whatever naming convention you find useful and describes the function enough to know what it is, then keep the naming convention reasonably consistent.

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Thanks for the tip

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Hi…

Opinions will differ even at the top levels on this one. Most OO devs recommend role based naming for classes/interfaces. They tend to end in “er”. The problem with Manager and Listener is that they are too general purpose. SocketListener would be OK (something observing a socket).

yours, Marcus