[moderator again] Re: [OT] "Fluent Interface"? Welcome to NeXT
[moderator again] Re: [OT] "Fluent Interface"? Welcome to NeXT
- Subject: [moderator again] Re: [OT] "Fluent Interface"? Welcome to NeXT
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 18:35:19 -0400
This was originally, and still is, way off-topic for the Cocoa list.
Please take it elsewhere (perhaps the Obj-C list?)
On Aug 3, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Clark Cox wrote:
On 8/3/07, Charlton Wilbur <email@hidden> wrote:
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.
The void type was first added to a C compiler in System III C version
of PCC, which was in 1988.
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.
C++ did have a void type before C (that was one of the features, like
"const" that was implemented in C++ first, and then ported over to C).
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.
--
Clark S. Cox III
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