This may not be strictly naming related, but when ...

# naming

[Landry Norris]

This may not be strictly naming related, but when you read the :: syntax in kotlin (such as checking ::myVar.isInitialized or passing a method reference to a function), how do y’all pronounce it in your head?

[Landry Norris]

I feel like Paamayim Nekudotayim is a bit too long and a bit too PHP.

[streetsofboston]

I add "ref" to the name in my head.
::someVariable sounds in my head like "someVariable ref"

[Landry Norris]

Does that extrapolate to methods, especially like map(someObject::someMethod) or even map(something.somethingElse::someMethod) ?

[streetsofboston]

Then i may add "ref to" to the beginning (instead of " ref" to the end)
"ref to someObject someMethod"

[Landry Norris]

I’ll have to start using that.

[louiscad]

I usually don't pronounce it in my head, but sometimes, I think of it as "4 dots" or "double colon"

[dewildte]

I think this called a cons operator.
Scala and Haskell calls it that; I am pretty sure F# also calls it that too.

[dewildte]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cons

[dewildte]

That ☝️ is a bit Lisp specific but it’s used like this in many functional languages.

[ephemient]

cons is a very different operator, though

[ephemient]

I usually think of it as "bind", e.g. ::myVar is this::myVar is "`myVar` as bound to `this`". kinda breaks down at the top-level though