Re: [OT] "Fluent Interface"? Welcome to NeXT
Re: [OT] "Fluent Interface"? Welcome to NeXT
- Subject: Re: [OT] "Fluent Interface"? Welcome to NeXT
- From: Brian Willoughby <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:39:25 -0700
My Second Edition copy of K&R "C" is dated 1988, and documents the
(void) type. I'm sure that the first use of (void) predates the
publication of the book, at least that's a reasonable assumption.
The distinction of being standardized does not mean the type was not
available before committee acceptance. 1988 is also the year that
NeXT released the AppKit (Cocoa) to the public. I would have to boot
a very old machine and install a very early version of NeXTstep to
determine whether the GNU CC that was shipped by NeXT supported
(void) at that time.
I have to admit that I wrote my first Objective-C program in 1991,
after (void) was available.
NeXT added a number of things to Objective-C, so I should have
qualified my statement as referring to AppKit - the precursor to
Cocoa. I never had access to Objective-C before AppKit.
Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting
On Aug 3, 2007, at 10:00, Clark Cox wrote:
On 8/3/07, Brian Willoughby <email@hidden> wrote:
P.S. (void) existed before Objective-C.
I hate to nit-pick, but void wasn't in C until it was standardized in
1989 (by ANSI) and 1990 (by ISO), Objective-C dates back to 1983.
Objective-C obviously predates the void type. In early Objective-C (as
in C) it was impossible to write a function or method that didn't
return a type.
--
Clark S. Cox III
email@hidden
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