http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/12/11/code-for-positive-data-values-not-negative/ Thoughts on Software Development Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/12/11/code-for-positive-data-values-not-negative/comment-page-1/#comment-18486 Coding: Keep method/variable names positive at Mark Needham Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:48:06 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=724#comment-18486 [...] refactored the code to refer to what we know is valid rather than looking at the reverse which I think is much more difficult to reason about. public [...] [...] refactored the code to refer to what we know is valid rather than looking at the reverse which I think is much more difficult to reason about. public [...]

]]> http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/12/11/code-for-positive-data-values-not-negative/comment-page-1/#comment-1886 Alexandre Martins Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:27:18 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=724#comment-1886 Impressive, today I spoke to Cammy about this coding aiming positive results, after reading Pat's post. What a coincidence! Impressive, today I spoke to Cammy about this coding aiming positive results, after reading Pat’s post. What a coincidence!

]]> http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/12/11/code-for-positive-data-values-not-negative/comment-page-1/#comment-1875 Pete Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:21:30 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=724#comment-1875 I think you mean to throw an exception if someValue == 0 in the first example. I think you mean to throw an exception if someValue == 0 in the first example.

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