determining which verb to use for method names in Java

Question

I understand that naming conventions are important for a number of reasons, most having to do with making your code more readable and easier to integrate into larger projects, e

Answer 1

I think to find anything which could be a "solution" for the problem we should first extract criteria which play any role in choosing name, like:

• readableness (trivial: getValue instead of transferValueFromThisObjectToYou)
• convenience (trivial: getCoordValue instead of )
• semantics of the method (get is not the same as calculate)
• context of usage (in IDEs I usually type aaa.get_ and press Ctrl+Space to check what I can get from the object)
• code guides (or other "guides" like Java Bean convention which force you to use some names)

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However as suat said - better spend some efforts on a documentation for your methods.