Re: OT: Meaning of .m extension
Re: OT: Meaning of .m extension
- Subject: Re: OT: Meaning of .m extension
- From: Terrence Talbot <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 21:06:54 -0800
On Nov 22, 2003, at 7:40 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
[snip]
Forgot to forward this to the list to enlighten others ;-)
It stands for "module"
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3490
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=objective-c+extension+m+module
I think I'd go with Ali Ozer on this one. I've always understood the .m
to stand for methods, too. See, generally, Chapter 5 of Brad Cox's
book, Object Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach (1986),
which makes a point of encouraging the reader to not talk about
Objective-C objects as modules, but rather as class definitions (the
@interface stuff typically found in .h files) and method definitions
(the @implementation stuff always found in .m files).
So, I would think the .m stands for method definitions, or methods for
short.
Terrence
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