What are some good conventions (any language) for methods/functions with subtly different behavior, especially as it relates to public invariants, etc?
Some examples of what I mean in thread...
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Not sure if you'd think it is ‘good’, but Rust has:
- to_*: copy to some other storage/type
- into_*: convert to some type by-move
- as_*: cast to some type without copying
- try_*: fallible conversion returning a Result rather than panicking
- *_mut: mutable variant of a method
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"{to,into,as}_", while "good" conventions, they are not quite what I'm asking about. try_ and _mut are more relevant though. Interestingly, these both seem to suggest a missing language feature to me for automatic lifting/lowering from panics/results or immutable/mutable.
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Does Rust have a convention for private-variants of public methods?
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