# \#convention

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## [Ask user to provide points coordinates as two vectors or as a single vector of tuples?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ask-user-to-provide-points-coordinates-as-two-vectors-or-as-a-single-vector-of-tuples/117717)

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**Author:** [@K5Julien](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/K5Julien)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [August 2, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ask-user-to-provide-points-coordinates-as-two-vectors-or-as-a-single-vector-of-tuples/117717 "2024-08-02T21:21:42Z")

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When asking the user to provide coordinates of plan points for my package RingStarProblems.jl I initially thought the following was best: xycoordinates = tuple.(1:10, rand(1:10, 10)) somefunction(xycoordinates) However…

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## [Breaking notation convention - a potential anti-pattern?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/breaking-notation-convention-a-potential-anti-pattern/101699)

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**Author:** [@algunion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/algunion)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [July 18, 2023, 9:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/breaking-notation-convention-a-potential-anti-pattern/101699 "2023-07-18T09:21:35Z")

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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 an…