It's a question of whether to pick "addition" or "modification".
If "modification" was to be the emphasis, then perhaps "MODIFIES"
would be best. Anyway, thanks for the feedback, we're going to
revisit this again.
Not only I'm just an ordinary Cocoa developer, I'm also a non-native
speaker, so my opinion may not weigh much, but ALTERS sounds better
for me. Let's see what Webster has to say about these two words:
ALTER implies a difference in some particular respect without
suggesting loss of identity <slightly altered the original design>.
MODIFY suggests a difference that limits, restricts, or adapts to a
new purpose <modified the building for use by the handicapped>.
Why would you choose modify? (Well, I know it's longer;).)
- variables declared after PUBLIC TO NEIGHBORS makes them visible
only within the enclosing module and classes also defined within
that enclosing module
What we don't like about this is the fact that it is not an
internationally acceptable solution because of the US American
spelling of NEIGHBORS.
PUBLIC TO MODULE seems to be a pretty stratithforward solution.
According to Cocoa/OpenStep practice, init* should be an
instance method. The corresponding class method would be
newWithFoo:andBar:, or fooBarWithFoo:andBar: if it autorelease the
return value. Also, the return type should be OBJECT to allow
clean overriding of superclass initialisers with the same name.
Indeed. However, keep in mind that the wiki page intends to present
an overview and be concise. To the Modula-2 programmer the concept
of dynamic typing is foreign and thus for illustrative reasons it
was important to show that the method returns Foobar the class.
I think it returns an instance of Foobar. Returning a class or an
instance has nothing to do with the fact whether it's a class or
instance method.
For example both +class and -class return the receceiver's class (not
an instance), but this is never the case of +alloc, -init or +new.
The only reason why initWithFoo:andBar: is presented as a class
method is to show that there is a syntactical destinction between
class methods and instance methods, a concept that will again be
foreign to Modula-2 and Pascal programmers. But the idea to use
newWithFoo:andBar: as an example instead is great. We'll change
that. Thanks a lot for your feedback.
I think we're getting into details here and that this should rather
go to a ObjM2-specific mailing list. Are there any plans to start
such a list?
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