“Get” method does not return

The name suggests that the method returns something (e.g., name starts with “get” or “return”) but the return type is void. The documentation should explain where the resulting data is stored and how to obtain it.

Reference

Venera Arnaoudova, Massimiliano Di Penta, Giuliano Antoniol. “Linguistic antipatterns: what they are and how developers perceive them". in Empirical Software Engineering (ESEM), 21(1), Feb 2016. 104-158. 10.1007/s10664-014-9350-8