On May 21, 2008, at 10:38 PM, Andrew Farmer wrote:
Interesting - I wasn't aware that unlabeled arguments existed (primarily because they're not used in Cocoa). I'd stay away from them, as they're strictly less clear than named arguments, and will probably confuse other programmers just as they did me.
In the predecessor to Cocoa, NeXTSTEP, there were a handful of methods that were named with bare arguments.
Many examples can be found here:
http://www.cilinder.be/docs/next/NeXTStep/3.3/nd/GeneralRef/02_ApplicationKit/Classes/Matrix.htmld/index.html
Like:
<<inline: c2D.gif>>
makeCellAt:(int)row :(int)colIt was, for the very reasons you describe, eliminated in the move to OpenStep and, finally, Cocoa. I don't believe there are any such methods left in the supported Cocoa API.
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