Re: Apple's excellent documentation on class clusters
Re: Apple's excellent documentation on class clusters
- Subject: Re: Apple's excellent documentation on class clusters
- From: jgo <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 22:55:57 -0800
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"Erik M. Buck" <email@hidden> Wed, 2002-01-02 15:00:06 -0600
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I was starting to write a few pages about class clusters for the upcoming
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Cocoa Programming [Unleashed] book and I checked Apple's documentation for
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any updates since the last time I read it. I discovered the following:
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<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/TasksAndConcepts/Programmin
gTopics/Foundation/Concepts/ClassClusters.html>
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Wow! That is GREAT documentation. Good job Apple. The problem is that
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anything I write is going to be redundant. If all of Apple's documentation
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was as clear, concise, and correct as that, nobody would need a new book...
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So what do the great minds of this forum think. Should the already small
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section on class clusters consist of entirely of the URL to Apples
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documentation? Should I attempt to present the same information in my own
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words and probably not do as well? Do any of you have any questions about
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the three printed pages or so represented by Apple's document that I could
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perhaps answer to add some value to my discussion of the topic? Should I
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just drop the subject from our outline?
You should write it in your own words, different from Apple's, because
just having one source for particular information (or several that use
exactly the same words) leaves the reader subject to having to be
completely in tune with that specific writer's approach. By having
more than one description, more than one approach, different readers
& readers with a different background a higher chance of getting
something useful from it.
John G. Otto, Eagle Scout, Knight, Cybernetic Praxeologist
Existence, Consciousness, Identity, Life, Liberty, Property, Privacy, Justice