it's a not-uncommon usage in the programming world where the apostrophe separates the actual name of the thing from the 's' denoting a plural and it means 'more than one std::map'. I've seen this one for years, along with std::map(s) but that takes one extra character to type.
On 24 Jun, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> wrote: > Scott, your use of the apostrophe is confusing, since those terms don't > appear to be possessive or contractions > > Instead of : >> std::map's of > > > and >> multimap's of > > > Did you mean > > std::maps of > > and > > multimaps of ? > > > > > > > On Jun 24, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Scott Ribe wrote: > >> On Jun 23, 2013, at 7:51 PM, Ian Joyner wrote: >> >>> I'd have to do some more thinking as to whether that is a weakness in >>> CoreData or not, but it seems to be erring in the ER direction. >> >> Hmm. My own private ORM has no such pointers--instead using methods which >> rely on std::map's of primary keys to ids, and multimap's of primary keys to >> foreign keys... >> >> -- >> Scott Ribe >> scott_r...@elevated-dev.com >> http://www.elevated-dev.com/ >> (303) 722-0567 voice >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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/zav%40mac.com >> >> This email sent to z...@mac.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/rols%40rols.org > > This email sent to r...@rols.org _______________________________________________ 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
