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Re: why are there zero examples in the cocoa docs?!



Re: why are there zero examples in the cocoa docs?!
As someone who is just getting into the depths (toes first) of Cocoa I appreciate the nature of
Joeles remarks with regards to the apparent disconnect between concrete examples and
the reference material. I think the main problem is that Cocoa demonstrates a much
higher degree of abstraction than is found in say .NET. Or perhaps it is that in .NET less
is made of the abstraction and more is made of the concrete. But I think the stern intellectual
presentation of Cocoa's abstractions is part of its appeal. The .NET environment is definitely more
discoverable than Cocoa/Xcode - you can get things to work without having to understand them in great depth.
Not so, I think, with our illustrious Cocoa - understanding has to come first. This makes learning
Cocoa truly challenging, but ultimately worthwhile. And, to me, at least there is real
mental pleasure in getting my mind to comprehend the nature of Cocoa's structures.
Jonathan
FROM : mmalc crawford
DATE : Sun Jan 20 12:11:00 2008

On Jan 20, 2008, at 2:20 AM, Ren� v Amerongen wrote:

> Then it would be nice to have in the reference references ( link )
> to the accompanying conceptual doc.
>

They typically do, at the top of each reference -- see "Companion
guides" in, for example, <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSString_Class/Reference/NSString.html
>.

If there's no companion guide listed, it means there's either no
conceptual material or the link hasn't been established yet.  In such
a case, it's probably worth doing a full-text search for the class/
symbol you're interested in and seeing if it is described in a
conceptual document.  If it is not, then file an enhancement request
for it to be written; if it is, then file a bug stating that the link
is missing.

mmalc
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