Awesome. Thanks. In today's world, so many people don't seem to pay attention to proper use of the apostrophe, that I thought I'd ask rather than assume.
Noting this, is it wise(r) to actually use (s) to indicate a plural in this case? On Jun 24, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Roland King wrote: > 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
