Picky with the pesky names

I am writing a test case that looks like this:

        self assert: (level between: -1 and: 1)

I wrote a method in Magnitude to help me write the above expression in a
more readable way.

        self assert: (level inside: -1@1)

Where #inside: is defined as follows:

    Magnitude >> inside: intervalPoint
        "Alternative way of expressing inclusion within an interval
        (0.5 inside: -1@1) = (0.5 between: -1 and: 1)
        "
        ^self between: intervalPoint x and: intervalPoint y

As you can see, the method is trivial, the name is not. Several
alternatives names come to my mind:

        0.5 inside: -1@1
        0.5 in: -1@1
        0.5 within: -1@1
        0.5 included: -1@1
        0.5 belongsTo: -1@1

Any preference? Or am I being too picky with the pesky names?

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<[hidden email]> wrote:

I won't comment on your pickiness :) but I'd go for #within:. "0.5 is within
the interval (-1, 1)."

If it was ME, I'd stay with #between:and:, because when I see -1@1 I think
of a point on the Cartesian plane, not an interval on the real number line.
But that's just me being picky!

frank

Hello Frank,


FS> <[hidden email]> wrote:

>> As you can see, the method is trivial, the name is not. Several
>> alternatives names come to my mind:
>>
>>         0.5 inside: -1@1
>>         0.5 in: -1@1
>>         0.5 within: -1@1
>>         0.5 included: -1@1
>>         0.5 belongsTo: -1@1

FS> I won't comment on your pickiness :) but I'd go for #within:. "0.5 is within
FS> the interval (-1, 1)."

Same opinion here.

FS> If it was ME, I'd stay with #between:and:, because when I see -1@1 I think
FS> of a point on the Cartesian plane, not an interval on the real number line.

Also the same opinion.
I also could accept if (-1 ... 1) creates that interval so it would be
0.5 within: (-1 ... 1). But the advantage would be in creating an
interval and not regarding this discussion.



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