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Why use such misleading names for functions?

Why use such misleading names for functions?

Posted Nov 25, 2010 21:36 UTC (Thu) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018)
In reply to: Why use such misleading names for functions? by RobSeace
Parent article: On breaking things

> And, no, it's NOT really a "misleading" name...
> (...)
> the data truly was MOVED from source to destination (...)

You're correct, now that you say that, I understand why the name!


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