Making names “intention-revealing” is a well-known principle in object-oriented programming and design. You want the names of methods to communicate their purpose rather than their technical implementation.
A related question is: how much should the code reveal about what's going on at a lower level?
An illustrative example is the PEAR package HTML_Quickform, which handles all the [...]
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