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Re: Release understanding help…


  • Subject: Re: Release understanding help…
  • From: j o a r <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:56:04 +0100


On 2004-12-07, at 19.25, Thomas Davie wrote:

I don't see why stringWithFormat is considered to be better than stringByAppendingString...

Only because I did in one line what you did in two. Just a little bit more readable (IMO), nothing more.


[NSString stringWithFormat:@"0123456789mc/\" %@", [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:NSDecimalSeparator];
and
[@"0123456789mc/\" " stringByAppendingString:[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey];
are pretty much as readable as each other. In fact the second one could be considered clearer because the reader doesn't have to scan along the string to find the %@. They are equally efficient (they both have to create and free two string objects). Is there a reason to chose one over the other... Other than that the second is more readable.

That was my only point. And I agree, in the end the result would be the same - and it's of course also subject to personal preference.


It might even be better to append the string, as you would avoid the pitfalls of having to think about what you pass as a format string (it's bad if it contains unexpected "%" characters...).

I consider readability (and hence maintainability) to be very important, and something to really try to strive for - so it's worth thinking about.

j o a r

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