I was exploring symstore.exe with Depends just now and came across a function in dbghelp that’s clearly not in the documentation. I got a nice chuckle out of it.
What sort of “fun” (not nasty!) function names do you tend to create? Or do you keep them all boring plain Jane? (Boooo!!) The way metadata is exposed in the .NET world, combined with a tool like Reflector, make function names like this more readily “available”. But still, we’ve gotta have some fun somehow!


October 27, 2007 at 00:44
it was a bit over the top, but I recently named a function this:
public void StupidBulls***FunctionToDoSomethingSlightlyDifferentToSatisfyOneClientThatNobodyButTheSalesRepEvenCaresAbout()
i’m a firm believer in pragmatic function naming.