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I have an Interpreter class that has a method named loop. This method takes two inputs, a java.io.Reader and a java.io.Writer. Until Reader provides input, it is read, evaluated, and printed to Writer.

For some reason loop does not sound like a good name for this method. I thought of repl but that doesn't sound too good either. What would be a better name for it?

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Maybe: process – palacsint Nov 1 '12 at 14:22
Could you name it more along the lines of the functionality it is doing rather than the steps it is taking to achieve the result? – dreza Nov 2 '12 at 8:37
@palacsint, I have already used that one for something else. :( – missingfaktor Nov 2 '12 at 9:04
@dreza, it's decoupled from those bits. – missingfaktor Nov 2 '12 at 9:04

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process is possible but a little arbitrary for my taste.

A better option would be pipeAndProcess

I'd just name it readEvalWrite

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Thank you for the suggestion! I ended up going for a interact, inspired by the function with same name and similar functionality from Haskell stdlib. – missingfaktor Nov 2 '12 at 9:03
+1 for readEvalWrite. It helps people who look at your code in the future to name things in a similar fashion as to what they are meant do. – Corv1nus Nov 2 '12 at 13:21
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I'd call it readEvaluatePrintLoop, which is the long form of repl. Or even repl ... on the basis that the reader ought to recognize the term and understand what it means.

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Thank you for the suggestion! I ended up going for a interact, inspired by the function with same name and similar functionality from Haskell stdlib. – missingfaktor Nov 2 '12 at 9:03

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