We discussed this topic 11 years ago in https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-June/025056.html but we seem to have never codified it in our coding style guideline. It really bothers me that we have a mixture of two styles so I’d like to propose that we pick one style and put that into style guideline & style checker.

The question is as follows. A pair of functions which lazily construct an object and one which returns nullptr if the object had not already been constructed can be named:

or:

Which one should we use?

- R. Niwa