Re: Beginner's questions
Re: Beginner's questions
- Subject: Re: Beginner's questions
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:58:32 +0100
Angela,
>
>>>>> Angela Brett (AB) wrote at Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:04:38 +1300:
AB> Objective-C also means more typing, since
AB> we have to type the names of the arguments, and they can be quite
AB> long. I thought at first that would bother me, but I don't mind all
AB> the typing since it makes it more legible...
Not speaking of the fact that a half-decent editor would spare you typing by
a properly implemented completion. The elder PB (aka PBWO) was able to do
that for ages: you just opened a new .m file, typed "[nsstr", pressed Alt-Esc
and got "[NSString"; you added " compo", pressed Alt-Esc thrice or so, and
it cycled to "componentsJoinedByString:"... etc.
Alas the PB team somehow can't get it work properly with the new PB; it's
slows writing programs _considerably_ (just like the lack of auto indentation
and completion: in PBWO, you just entered a '{', and the '}' occurred
automatically, properly indented; you copy/pasted a few lines, and they
re-indented properly regarding their new place, etc). Luckily I most time
live in the old PB (since I need ObjC/EOF, ie. Mac OS X Server 1); whenever I
have to use the new PB I swear mightily though, and am really sorry for all
of you who have to use the thing full-time...
AB> Oh, and while I'm here, I might as well jump on the bandwagon and say
AB> that the [ and ] keys are right next to the P on my keyboard... maybe
AB> they're elsewhere in non-English-speaking countries or something.
On the very same place with Czech, at the very least ;)
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