On Oct 28, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Quincey Morris wrote: > On Oct 28, 2012, at 10:37 , Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote: > >> No matter what you do, file a bug with the 3rd-party framework. Their macros >> should not leak. > > The thing that bothers me is why macros should be substituting into method > parameter names at all. It potentially brings *pieces* of method names into > the global symbol namespace -- which is basically what happened to Paul, if > you look at his problem from the other end. That possibility seems > nightmarish to me. >
It's just as useful or harmful as any other macro expansion; we've got auto-generated methods we build from macros for the same reason @synthesize is so useful - there's lots of boilerplate to copy if we had to do it by hand. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
