Binary Operator in Name

Overview

This is straightforward: method or function names that have binary bitwise operators like AND and OR are obvious candidates for undisguised violators of the Single Responsibility Principle right out there in the open. If the method name has and in its name and then it does two different things, then one might ask why it is not split in half to do these two other things separately? Moreover, if the method name has or then it not only does two different things but also, most likely, it has a stinky Flag Argument which is yet another Code Smell.

This code smell might happen not only in the method names, even though it is the place to look for in the vast majority of this kind of smell, but also in the variables.