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"Best" method names ever...

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We had a thread recently about the oddly named SafeHandle.DangerousGetHandle()…

Which raised a few other oddly named methods from platforms past:

FDangerouslyCommitToDiskCacheButNotActuallyToDisk (or some approximation, from OLE)

SetMetafileBitsBetter (from win3.1)

PrestoChangoSelector (from some earlier windows version)

Got any of your own?

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2005
    I quite like RemotingService.Connect because the one this it doesn't do it connect to the remote object
  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2005
    Thinking about it I also like the incredibly descriptive

    FormsAuthentication.HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile

    I was hopiing to also find a

    HashPasswordForStoringInDatabase
    HashPasswordForStoringInXMLFile
    HashPasswordForStoringInRegistry

    But alas I was out of luck
  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2005
    I can't think of any from WinAPI or anything like that, but I have written the following webservice functions:

    isServerOn()
    isServerOnFire()

    I haven't written better functions since. I think I hit my peak with those ones.
  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2005
    There was a goto label called ICantBelieveIUsedGoto in the thousands of lines of code contained in DefWndProc (released to public).
  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2005
    One of the guys here wrote a test called "TestBashThatBadBoy()". It was funny seeing that pop up on the list of failing tests the first time... :P
  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2005
    For sheer length, I always liked:
    CoMarshalInterThreadInterfaceInStream (from COM)
  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2005
    I Agree Kevin !
    CoMarshalInterThreadInterfaceInStream is the best method name..
  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2005
    AccessCheckByTypeResultListAndAuditAlarmByHandle tramples CoMarshalInterThreadInterfaceInStream.
  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2005
    System._AppDomain ?

    A spanner in the works of IntelliSense.

    (And yes I know this isn't what you're looking for but it's been bugging me in vs2005).
  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2005
    How about renaming DangerousGetHandle to UnsafeGetHandle (or GetHandleUnsafe)? SafeHandle.UnsafeGetHandle looks even more funny :-)
  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2005
    We have a function called "f" that takes "this" as a parameter on my current project.
  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2005
    Free BSD has (or had) a function named die_you_gravy_sucking_pigdog() in shutdown.c
  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2005
    int IDontKnowWhatThisCodeDoesButItIsUsedTwentyTimesInThisClass(int i) { /* calculates some strange value, 20 lines of code, uses all five private fields */ }

    In legacy code.
  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2005
    From Zope, there's the infamous _setBasesHoldOnToYourButts() in ZClass.py.
    An immortal Jim Fulton-ism ;)
  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2005
    Assembly has a _DontTouchThis field. True, it's not a method name, but I stumbled across it one day and I was SOOO tempted to write Reflection code just to change it because it told me not to :).
  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2005
    in the FxCop unittests for the AvoidCallingProblematicMethods rule, there is a test that calls all the problematic methods this rule tests for:

    AbandonAllHopeYeWhoCallsThisMethod()
  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2005
    I've always liked "MakeSureDirectoryPathExists".

    There's an API called "PathMakeUniqueName" which begat "PathYetAnotherMakeUniqueName"
  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2005
    cloneOMatic9000
  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2005
    ISingleObjectCollection
  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2005
    I once used a "G" prefix on a string abstraction, GString, used to encapsulate a private member.
  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2005
    I once came across CFURLCreateStringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding and CFURLCreateFromFileSystemRepresentationRelativeToBase available in the Mac Core Foundations framework :-)

    http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/CFURLRef/Reference/function_group_3.html#//apple_ref/c/func/CFURLCreateStringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding
  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2005
    My favorite is part of kernel32.dll in XP and above:

    ZombifyActivationContext

    I would have loved to be at the API review for that one.
  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2005
    A while ago, in my C++ days, I was digging through a header file and saw a DEFINE named BEEFCACE with the comment, "Too bad hex does't have a K". I was laughing to tears!
  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2005
    And, of course, AccessCheckByTypeResultListAndAuditAlarmByHandle (from Pavel Lebedinsky) calls NtAccessCheckByTypeResultListAndAuditAlarmByHandle in NTDLL.
  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2005
    I rather like ISupportErrorInfo, for it's moral statement about the matter.
  • Anonymous
    January 11, 2005
    This isn't a method name, but back in Win 95 betas there was a secret system.ini switch called FLUFFYBUNNY32. Setting it to 1 turned on (I think) full-window dragging.
  • Anonymous
    January 12, 2005
    The undocumented Windows API TabTheTextOutForWimps isn't bad.

    I've also seen functions with names like maybe_open_window, etc. Real confidence insipiring name, no? :-)

  • Anonymous
    January 13, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2005
    A few from Whidbey:

    private void System.IO.Ports.SerialPort.MaybeResizeBuffer(int)

    protected vistual void System.Web.Configuration.BrowserCapabilitiesFactory.PanasonicexchangesupporteddeviceProcessGateways(System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection, System.Web.HttpBrowserCapabilities)

    public const long* System.DirectoryServices.Protocols.LocatorFlags.GoodTimeServerPreferred

    public const int* System.Management.ManagementStatus.ClientTooSlow

    public const int* System.Windows.Forms.AutoSizeMode.GrowAndShrink
  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2005
    >> private void System.IO.Ports.SerialPort.MaybeResizeBuffer(int)

    Ugh! I could see something like SerialPort.AttemptBufferResize(int).
  • Anonymous
    January 22, 2005
    System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AssemblyAttributesGoHereSM
  • Anonymous
    January 24, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    January 24, 2005
    One more, a guy here wrote a function called "ShowMoreLabelMore". Another wrote one called "HideMostOfMenu".
  • Anonymous
    January 24, 2005
    SuperJason: Would that mean you could have an assembly loading function called AssLoad()?
  • Anonymous
    January 24, 2005
    There is a tale ofg a variable called "Live_RSA_Usages" which mutated over time to "Liversausages"..yeuch.
  • Anonymous
    January 24, 2005
    NdisDestroyLookaheadBufferFromSharedMemory always struck me as a bit lengthy, but Pavel's has it beat by 6.
  • Anonymous
    January 24, 2005
    I know this isn't a method, however, It's always puzuled me as to why this registry key exists:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USERWindows 3.1 Migration Status

    I'm sure you can't upgrade 3.1 to xp?
  • Anonymous
    January 24, 2005
    Sure Enough. I found a Windows 3.1 Migration in my Registry. I posted a picture of it here. Check out the string value I found.
    http://www.doyousnap.com/portal/albums/7/103.aspx
  • Anonymous
    February 04, 2005
    These aren't really method names, but nice constant values I've seen (or used) during the years. Hexadecimal fun in the style of "BEEFCACE".

    const uint LEGACY_VALUE = 0xDEADBEEF;
    const uint THUMBS_UP = 0xB00BBABE;
    const uint ERROR_TOTAL_FAILURE = 0xFACE0FF;
    const bool FALSE_FLAG = (0xCE0 == 0xDEAF);
    const bool DEBUG_STATE = (0xDECAF + 0xC0FFEE == 0xBAD);
  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2007
    PingBack from http://arnulfoperez.com/blog/2007/05/07/safehandles/