Poll for people who program
In your favourite language, what do you consider a call to a functions/methods/procedures/subroutine to be, in grammatical terms?
Please elaborate, and thanks for boosting.
Voted imperative because computers are things we tell what to do.
But if we are talking about pure functions (no side effect, no change to state and so on) I would let the verb "compute" as implicit and use a name describing what have to be computed instead.
This is my usual naming approach but there are more corner cases that depend on context.
For example, when programming a domain model, specification methods are usually called `IsSatisfiedBy` since the class/interface express the conditions represented.
Similarly in DDD, I name most analysis method as `Analyse` as the interface/class name express the analysis that will be computed.
