I have a scenario where I think it might be warranted to depart from the end with an exclamation mark convention for function names that modify at least one of their arguments. However, I wouldn’t want to get into an anti-pattern here - so I am really curious about your take on this. I think the b…

The ! is just a convention, designed to be a helpful signal to end users about what the function may or may not do. IMO it all depends on the use-case and how you might imagine callers reasoning about the function call.

Breaking notation convention - a potential anti-pattern?

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gdalle July 18, 2023, 5:25am 15

Actually, my “don’t” was a response to this, as in “don’t even go there it is beyond cursed”