Bad method names and what it says about code structure.

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Published on 2010-05-24T20:38:41Z Indexed on 2010/05/24 20:41 UTC
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(Apologies in advance if this is a re-post but I didn't find similar posts)

What bad method name patterns have you seen in code and what did it tell you about the code.

For instance, I keep seeing:

public void preform___X___IfNecessary(...);

I believe that this is bad because the operation X has an inversion of conditions. Note that this is a public method because classes methods might legitimately require private helpers like this

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