Re: "get" prefixes in Cocoa
Re: "get" prefixes in Cocoa
- Subject: Re: "get" prefixes in Cocoa
- From: Rob Ross <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:19:25 -0700
the "get" idiom means that you are passing in pointer arguments to
the method, and the method will mutate(modify) the pointed-to
objects. It's an alternate way of retrieving data from a method call
as opposed to the usual function return value.
Rob Ross, Lead Software Engineer
E! Networks
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On Jul 30, 2008, at 1:11 AM, Sumner Trammell wrote:
Hi. Cocoa idioms dictate setFoo: and foo: for setters and getters.
Occasionally, the prefix "get" appears in a Cocoa method, like this
one:
- (void)getObjects:(id *)objects andKeys:(id *)keys
When a method is prefixed with get in Cocoa, what is being expressed?
Thanks,
-s
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