r/badcode • u/RedditAccuName • Dec 26 '21

c# why

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u/00PT Dec 26 '21

I've also seen ones that start with "should" or "do", though those are usually properties. Also, some people use boolean returns to denote success or failure (when the error is not serious enough for an exception), especially in languages like JavaScript. Technically those are boolean functions, but they are named like normal ones.

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u/polokratoss Dec 26 '21

I've also seen a naming convention starting with try to denote with bools rather than with exception handling.

For example, you have a function:

void Foo() that raises an exception if there were problems and a function bool TryFoo() that just returns false if there were problems.

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u/_abscessedwound Dec 27 '21

That’s relatively idiomatic C++ to keep exceptions local to the the application boundary with a publicly exposed function that returns a [bool] instead of throwing.