On May 22, 2008, at 12:49 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
On May 21, 2008, at 10:38 PM, Andrew Farmer wrote:
Interesting - I wasn't aware that unlabeled arguments existed
(primarily because they're not used in Cocoa). I'd stay away from
them, as they're strictly less clear than named arguments, and will
probably confuse other programmers just as they did me.
In the predecessor to Cocoa, NeXTSTEP, there were a handful of
methods that were named with bare arguments.
It was, for the very reasons you describe, eliminated in the move to
OpenStep and, finally, Cocoa. I don't believe there are any such
methods left in the supported Cocoa API.
b.bum
WebKit DOM methods were ugly like that (only worse, since there are
far more than just one bare argument), though they are at least now
marked as deprecated in 10.5 (but technically still supported).
I remember when they were introduced at a WWDC session, you could just
see the audience getting nauseous. It's funny how after using Cocoa
for a while, "Cocoa abuse" like that seems to be like fingernails on a
chalkboard.
