Re: File's Owner

FROM : Alex Kac
DATE : Tue May 27 23:19:42 2008

As one who has been on the Cocoa road slowly over the last year (not 
much in the middle, though), it has let me learn and absorb Cocoa 
terminology and ideas slowly. But the one thing I found weird was 
File's Owner. I knew what it meant. I knew what it does (and 
especially after this past week I think I know very very well), but 
the name throws me off mentally.

I liked "Nib's Owner". It keeps with the "owner" tag, but makes it 
more clear.

> 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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