Re: Warning message using stringWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:
Re: Warning message using stringWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:
- Subject: Re: Warning message using stringWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:
- From: Lee Ann Rucker <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:46:59 -0700
On Oct 28, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Quincey Morris wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2012, at 10:37 , Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> No matter what you do, file a bug with the 3rd-party framework. Their macros should not leak.
>
> The thing that bothers me is why macros should be substituting into method parameter names at all. It potentially brings *pieces* of method names into the global symbol namespace -- which is basically what happened to Paul, if you look at his problem from the other end. That possibility seems nightmarish to me.
>
It's just as useful or harmful as any other macro expansion; we've got auto-generated methods we build from macros for the same reason @synthesize is so useful - there's lots of boilerplate to copy if we had to do it by hand.
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