Re: conventions
Re: conventions
- Subject: Re: conventions
- From: jgo <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:51:42 -0700
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Also, programmers who want to make their Objective-C code
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readable by others should use lower case letters to start
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method names and method arguments. It is just a tradition,
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but...
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I know that I can't be bothered to help people by dissecting
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code that does not follow the conventions. Perhaps I am
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just too picky...
Yah, different programming cultures have different traditions
and conventions. It's probably different amongst the gnu slum
than the rest of the C world. I recently saw reference to M$
using/supporting/promoting the "Hungarian" convention...
in the past tense, so such things change over time, too.
I'm used to method names that begin with lower-case letters
being static or private, while public ones begin with upper-
case, and member data/instance vars (or anything else) that
begin with _ belonging to the system, not app developers.
This is something that should be documented prominently in
the Objective C doc, because it is different. (Which is,
together with the fact I've misplaced an e-mail address to
do it more directly, I've BCCd this to someone at Apple who
might pass it on to the doc folks.)
I see the Feiler book is on the shelves; a little light on
dev info, but it's aimed at a wider market. I'm on my way
back there, right now, to take a more thorough look at it
before deciding whether to buy.
John G. Otto, Eagle Scout, Knight, Cybernetic Praxeologist
Existence, Consciousness, Identity, Life, Liberty, Property, Privacy, Justice