On 4/25/12 3:44 PM, koko wrote: > > On Apr 25, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Mikkel Islay wrote: > >> the NSConference > > Violation … only Apple can use the NS prefix !
Do you understand *why* everyone was making a big deal about your choice of prefix? It's not because people here derive satisfaction from enforcing Apple's guidelines or documentation notes. Apple actually reserves ALL two letter prefixes (don't have the doc link handy, but trust me that this is the case). In addition to NS, some others that they use: UI, CT, SK, MF, CI, CT, CM come to mind. The main reason for this reservation is to prevent collision of a class that might be furnished in a future SDK with your classes. By choosing to use a two-letter prefix you are creating the possibility that some OS update, for example, will suddenly break your application. The same logic applies to prefixing method names in categories. Doubly so for root classes. For example, in a category on NSObject, instead of writing -performBlock:afterDelay: I opted to use: -SQS_performBlock:afterDelay: (Because of course Apple would *never* add a -performBlock:afterDelay: method.) -- Conrad Shultz Synthetiq Solutions www.synthetiqsolutions.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
