Now we're straying off into grammar, but… How about adding a word to indicate that you're talking about objects, as in "std::map objects" or "multimap objects"?
(I'd rather be clear than save a few keystrokes any day.) -Howard On Jun 24, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote: > 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... >>>> >>>> -- _______________________________________________ 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
