Software Design/Begin the name of a function with side effects with a verb

Checklist questions:

• Names of functions with side effects begin with a verb, rather than just being a noun phrase?

Why

• Thrutfulness
• Easier to reason about the composition of side effects in implementations of functions in programming environments that don't allow expressing side effects on the type level => less cognitive load and more robustness.

Why not

Beginning the name of a function with side effects with a verb doesn't provide much distinction in environments which support expressing side effects on the type level and where there are plenty of side-effect-free functions with names starting with verbs already. In such environments functions with side effects may have a dedicated prefix, for example, unsafe- in Cats Effect library for Scala.

Related

• Don't use get- prefix in the name of an expensive function
• Use colorful names
• Document function's algorithmic complexity