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<node id="129726" title="Frivolous function names" created="2001-12-05 18:55:17" updated="2005-08-10 14:54:56">
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tilly</author>
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Just today I ran across the need to have a pair of functions, one of which would try to fetch something
and return [undef] if it couldn't, the other of which
would try to do the fetch, and would create the thing if it wasn't there.  After some playing around in chatter I settled on a suggestion from [Petruchio] to use the naming style &lt;code&gt;get_foo()&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;summon_foo()&lt;/code&gt;.  Anyways the names work, are fairly short, and are reasonably descriptive.  But they got me thinking..what other whimsical sounding names have people here wound up using?</field>
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