Re: name that method!
Re: name that method!
- Subject: Re: name that method!
- From: Guy English <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:28:58 -0400
JSONRepresentation
On 28-Sep-07, at 7:40 AM, Stig Brautaset wrote:
Dear all,
I'm currently writing a JSON framework (http://code.brautaset.org/JSON/
)[0]. It contains a collection of categories adding JSON support to
existing Cocoa classes.
I add a method to NSDictionary and NSArray to return an NSString
instance containing their JSON representations, and therein lies my
problem. What do I name this method? I initially went with -
JSONString, but that is slightly ambiguous and can be confused with
JSON's own string type. I'm leaning towards simply -JSON[1]. What do
you think?
[0] yes, I'm aware there are a couple of existing projects floating
around. Call it intellectual curiosity.
[1] I also considered -JSONText, as "JSON text" is the term used in
the RFC (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt?number=4627) but this
would seem to indicate that we're returning an NSText instance,
which is not the case.
PS: sorry to bother you all with such banal questions but I find
coming up with good names to be one of the hardest problems in
software development.
Stig
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