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First one are method name, second one are status name.
Yoda level preference war.
I tend to add is to booleans toreally differentiate between a method name and a status.
That way, it's easier for my dumb brain to spot which is which at a glance.
In Elixir, we mark statuses by using a question mark at the end of the variable name. Something like this:
I like this better than the
is_
prefixdoes '?' have type definition in elixir or this is generally agreed design pattern?
If it's like Lisp, then
?
is just part of the symbol and doesn't have any special syntatic meaning. In different Lisps it's also convention to end predicate names with a?
or withP
(p for predicate)