Re: [OT] "Fluent Interface"? Welcome to NeXT
Re: [OT] "Fluent Interface"? Welcome to NeXT
- Subject: Re: [OT] "Fluent Interface"? Welcome to NeXT
- From: Charlton Wilbur <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:56:33 -0400
On Aug 3, 2007, at 1:00 PM, Clark Cox wrote:
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.
In fact, as near as I can find with a bit of googling, the void type
was part of the original spec for C. It and void pointers were
certainly part of the dialect of C that Stroustrup used as a basis
for early versions of C++ (back when it was "C with Classes"), and
that work dates back to 1979 or so.
What you may be thinking of is void pointers as generic pointers,
which is something that C89 standardized; prior to that, char
pointers were often used as generic, and there wasn't any real
consensus across platforms.
Charlton
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