Smarter people that we are have already spent the time to figure it out. Learn the way they did it and profit from their work and experience.
There is a benefit to learning how to create the wheel. That time is not now. Learn the wheel that we have. On Jun 28, 2016, at 7:03 PM, Peter Tomaselli wrote: > I have not a lot of Cocoa experience here, so I am legitimately asking this > question, no snark intended: what’s the advantage to building a home-made > “serial” “queue” as opposed to just using an actual serial operation queue? > Haven’t you just described the first few steps one would take were one to set > out to reimplement NSOperationQueue? > > FWIW (and as I mentioned, I am an eminently ignorable person when it comes to > Cocoa expertise), I sort of see the essence of the “async” flavor of > NSOperation as being to provide definitive signaling when an otherwise > asynchronous operation is really “finished“ — for whatever business > definition of “finished” one requires. So I don’t completely agree that this > would be “shoehorning”; seems right on the money to me. > > Just one opinion! Cheers, > > Peter > > On Jun 28, 2016, at 6:50 PM, "Gary L. Wade" <garyw...@desisoftsystems.com> > wrote: > >> Based on his desire to do this serially, he would need a serial queue, and >> he's using asynchronous requests, so succeeding calls from his completion >> handler with a simple array in queue pattern is simpler than shoehorning it >> all into dispatch queues. >> -- >> Gary L. Wade (Sent from my iPhone) >> http://www.garywade.com/ >> >>> On Jun 28, 2016, at 3:45 PM, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> wrote: >>> >>> Would a dispatch queue get what he's looking for? > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
