On May 19, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Michael Vannorsdel wrote:
I'm just saying Cocoa delegates don't always act in dictionary form.
I know this discussion can go round and round, but I still think
reading the english dictionary for delegates won't tell you the
whole story on Cocoa delegates.
With all respect, an English dictionary is not a good source for Cocoa
documentation. ;)
If you're not a native English speaker, a dictionary can clue you in
to the general meaning of terms that Cocoa uses, but you need to read
the actual documentation to understand what these terms mean in
practice. Any debate about the choice of the word "delegate" is
academic; it's like arguing that the "continue" keyword in C should
really be named "next" (which I think actually makes more sense;
"continue" could be read to mean "keep processing this loop."). But
all these names are just loose informal metaphors for what a hunk of
silicon is doing to a stream of binary numbers.
BTW, "delegate" makes plenty of sense to me personally. Without
reading any documentation, I immediately grasped the concept when I
first saw it in use.
- ben
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