Naming Conventions: What to name a boolean variable? [closed]

Answer 1

My vote would be to name it IsLast and change the functionality. If that isn't really an option, I'd leave the name as IsNotLast.

I agree with Code Complete (Use positive boolean variable names), I also believe that rules are made to be broken. The key is to break them only when you absoluately have to. In this case, none of the alternative names are as clear as the name that "breaks" the rule. So this is one of those times where breaking the rule can be okay.

Answer 2

How about:

 hasSiblings
 or isFollowedBySiblings (or isFolloedByItems, or isFollowedByOtherItems etc.)
 or moreItems

Although I think that even though you shouldn't make a habit of braking 'the rules' sometimes the best way to accomplish something may be to make an exception of the rule (Code Complete guidelines), and in your case, name the variable isNotLast

Answer 3

Haskell uses init to refer to all but the last element of a list (the inverse of tail, basically); would isInInit work, or is that too opaque?

Answer 4

hasFollowingItems? or hasFollowingXXXXs where XXXX is whatever the item in your list is?

Answer 5

isBeforeTheLastItem

isInFrontOfTheLastItem

isTowardsTheFrontOfTheList

Maybe too wordy but they may help give you ideas.

Answer 6

isPenultimateOrPrior

isBeforeEnd