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by stickfigure 1775 days ago
The only thing advanceBy has going for it is that when the programmer inevitably tries to type add (after wondering why plus turns up nothing), the IDE _might_ show it in a dropdown.
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Ok, but that’s when you read the docs. Also, in many languages, those expected methods could be mocked out to raise compiler errors, redirecting the developer to the correct methods.