"John Reimer" <terminal.n...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:28b70f8c139c58cb5508b9b1b...@news.digitalmars.com... > Hello Bill, > >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Nick Sabalausky <a...@a.a> wrote: >> >>> "Michel Fortin" <michel.for...@michelf.com> wrote in message >>> news:gmbt40$18p...@digitalmars.com... >>> >>>> Perhaps it's offtopic in a D forum, but you should use the class >>>> NSCharacterSet for that if you want to be efficient. There's a >>>> couple of methods in NSString accepting NSCharacterSet too which you >>>> may be interested in if you're writing a parser. >>>> >>> Nick Sabalausky is curious what the "NS" stands for in "NSString" and >>> "NSCharacterSet"...? >>> >> I believe it is for "NextStep". >> > > I'm pretty sure that is the case. That's one element, though, that I find > annoying about the language libraries. I think the notation looks ugly. > > Sorry Nick, it doesn't stand for "Nick Sabalausky". ;D >
Dang, and here I was so sure I had created Cocoa and just forgot about it ;) But seriously though, I would find that sooo distracting/confusing if I ever wrote anything in Cocoa, not just because of having the same extra couple letters prepended to everything, but because any time I see "NS" anywhere, my mind automatically parses that as "me". "What? I don't remember writing this...Oh, right."
