I love Ruby's naming conventions foo? and foo!.
foo?
foo!
The former is for a method that returns a boolean (like IsFoo in some languages):
IsFoo
irb(main):006:0> s = 'abc' => "abc" irb(main):007:0> s.empty? => false
The latter for a method that may do something possibly unexpected, such as modifying a given argument:
irb(main):001:0> s = 'abc' => "abc" irb(main):002:0> s.reverse => "cba" irb(main):003:0> s => "abc" irb(main):004:0> s.reverse! => "cba" irb(main):005:0> s => "cba"
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I love Ruby's naming conventions
foo?andfoo!.The former is for a method that returns a boolean (like
IsFooin some languages):The latter for a method that may do something possibly unexpected, such as modifying a given argument: