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mlRe: File's Owner
FROM : Ken Thomases
DATE : Tue May 27 22:47:53 2008

On May 27, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
> Putting this the other way round, I'm not sure that the answer is 
> to give File's Owner or Nib's Loader behavior that justifies its 
> name, but rather to give it a unobjectionable name that justifies 
> its (lack of) behavior -- if anyone can come up with such a name.


"Connection Point" or "Nib Connection Point", maybe.

The problem is that we're stuck with "owner" because it's used in the 
framework API (+[NSBundle loadNibNamed:owner:] is just one place 
where that terminology is embedded).

Cheers,
Ken

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