I need to create two versions of a function, a sus...

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[Johann Pardanaud]

I need to create two versions of a function, a suspendable one and a non-suspendable one, I want to make it explicit in the name which one is or isn't suspendable. What you would be a good antonym of "suspendable"? I could write mySuspendableFunction but what would be the name of the other function? myNonSuspendableFunction seems a bit too verbose.

Or maybe should I go with myAsyncFunction and mySyncFunction? But those `async`/`sync` words are never used in Kotlin's terminology.

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

Blocking is the convention for a non-suspending variation of a function. Usually, we also just name the suspending function without highlighting that it is suspending, because the type system takes care of that

[Johann Pardanaud]

what would you do in case of invocable classes? The type system doesn't help here:

class BlockingClass {
    operator fun invoke(): Unit = TODO()
}

class SuspendableClass {
    suspend operator fun invoke(): Unit = TODO()
}

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

I would call it Class and BlockingClass,

[Johann Pardanaud]

thank you !

[Ruckus]

A minor addendum to what @Youssef Shoaib [MOD] said, I like their suggestion, assuming the suspending version is meant to be the most used / default implementation. If it's the other way around, I'd call the first Class and the second something like AsyncClass or whatever that demonstrates how it's intended use deviates from the default mode.