State-of-being verbs

[iambryanhaney]

I recently prepared a presentation on the topic of variable naming for juniors, and I ended up going down the 8th grade English rabbit hole.

Something that I found fascinating, and I think worth noting, is that the "prefixes" in this guide align strongly with "state-of-being verbs"... "is", "has", "was", "should", etc.

In a sense, they straddle the gap between adjectives and verbs, in that they define the state of a thing via verbs.

https://www.google.com/search?q=state+of+being+verbs

[RalphHightower]

This Request For Comments does a great job of explaining the difference of what is required versus what is recommended. I referenced that RFC in my EOL.
RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels