On Jul 24, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Tom Jeffries wrote: > Jens, I'm sorry if my naming conventions confuse you. I've been programming > for 27 years on a wide variety of operating systems, and I'm afraid following > Cocoa naming conventions is not high on my list.
OK. It’s 33 years in my case, 15 of them at Apple. I don’t know if you work in a team, but one of the things you lean is that coding conventions are really important if you want other people to understand your code. And asking other developers on a mailing list for help with your code is an instance of that. If they can’t figure out what it means easily, they’re not going to bother to try to figure out what’s wrong with it. (And using terms like ‘function’ and ‘variable’ in ways that don’t match accepted usage doesn’t help, either.) The other detailed stuff I was going to say has already been echoed by other people. At a high level: what you’ve been saying so far indicates that you have some basic confusion about object-oriented programming and Objective-C. There’s nothing wrong with that; OOP is rather different than procedural coding, and Objective-C is a more classically object-oriented language than C++ or Java (it was directly inspired by Smalltalk, the first major OO language.) But I think that you should put your app on the back burner for a little while, read up on the Objective-C language, and try some simpler examples. I really don’t mean to sound patronizing. For comparison, I’ve been trying to learn some functional programming languages (Erlang, Scala) and find the whole approach pretty confusing. If I started trying to write a serious app in either of those, I’d probably get into a mess. So I’m trying to start slow and acclimate myself to the concepts. Which is what I’m advising you to do too. —Jens_______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
