Re: [ANN] Cocoa Style for ObjC: 1 and 2

FROM : Marco Scheurer
DATE : Thu Oct 28 17:33:43 2004

On Oct 27, 2004, at 10:57 PM, Scott Stevenson wrote:

>
> On Oct 27, 2004, at 1:08 PM, The Amazing Llama wrote:
>

>>     infoByURL    (a dictionary of URL objects pointing to "info" objects)
>>     pagesByDate    (a dictionary of date objects pointing to "page" arrays
>> (because of the plural))
>>
>> etc. This makes it very easy to use later on, when you might have
>> multiple dictionaries pointing to the same data via different keys.
>> It is also relatively easy to expand this to accessors,

>
> Yeah, this is a good one.


Yes, I use it too.

>>     -infoForURL:
>>     or
>>     -infoWithURL:
>>
>> although I'm still trying to decide which makes more sense, for or
>> with.


IMHO for a dictionary query infoForURL makes more sense, similar to
objectForKey vs. objectWithKey. And it frees 'with' for the other
cases, mostly methods that construct an object with another.

Marco Scheurer
Sen:te, Lausanne, Switzerland  http://www.sente.ch