On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: > On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:48 , Matt Neuburg wrote: > >> As long as we're just dreaming up our own linguistic world, I'd suggest that >> instead of "owning" we say "owning-copying". I've never liked the way "copy" >> implies "retain". The word "retain" tells you something very important, >> namely that this thing has an elevated retain count and needs release later. >> It's not very nice to expect a beginner to know that "copy" *also* means >> that. If you're copying, you're taking ownership, and "owning-copying" would >> remind you of that. m. > > "you" == "the class implementor"??
I'm looking at it from the programmer's (esp. learner's) point of view in general. I'm just thinking of what would be a useful and expressive term, just as you were doing with "owning" in the first place. m. -- matt neuburg, phd = m...@tidbits.com, http://www.apeth.net/matt/ pantes anthropoi tou eidenai oregontai phusei Programming iOS 5! http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023562.do RubyFrontier! http://www.apeth.com/RubyFrontierDocs/default.html TidBITS, Mac news and reviews since 1990, http://www.tidbits.com _______________________________________________ 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
