Re: Question about method names in NSKeyedArchiver

FROM : Michael Watson
DATE : Sat Jul 15 07:16:26 2006

One returns an archived data object, and the other unarchives an 
archived data object.

It's a semantics thing that follows convention throughout Cocoa, really.


--
Michael Watson

On 15 Jul, 2006, at 01:12, Rob Ross wrote:

>
> NSKeyedArchiver has this class method:
>
> + (NSData *)archivedDataWithRootObject:
>
> and NSKeyedUnarchiver has this class method:
>
> + (id)unarchiveObjectWithData:
>
> Why is the first method name in the past tense 
> (achive_d_DataWithRootObject), while the second method name is in 
> the present tense? That is, why isn't the first one just named:
>
> + (NSData *)archiveDataWithRootObject:
>
> since you're sending a message to class NSKeyedArchiver to 
> "archive" some data, just as here:
>
> + (id)unarchiveObjectWithData:
>
> you're telling class NSKeyedUnarchiver to "unarchive" some data.
>
>
> I'm confused by the inconsistency.
>
>
> Rob Ross, Lead Software Engineer
> E! Networks
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