Naming things

[Wyatt via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 09:27:16 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
>
> Two examples of controversial name pairs: setExt/setExtension, 
> and toLower/toLowerCase. These functions have the same 
> functionality, but one of them is eager, and the other is lazy. 
> Can you guess which is which

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd go with "the shorter one is 
lazy", but that presumes I'd notice there were two 
nearly-identical functions in the first place and pick up on the 
not-well-conveyed implication that one is lazy and the other is 
not.  That's a Bad Thing.

And it's a bad thing everyone seems to be tip-toeing around, too. 
  None of the suggestions I've seen so far really call out to me 
"hey, this is lazy and has a non-lazy counterpart".  Would it be 
so wrong to add "lazy" to the beginning or end so it's super 
obvious at a glance with zero cognitive overhead?

-Wyatt