On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Sixten Otto wrote:
> Let me be clear: I'm not talking about borrowing the "none" constant from
> Enumeration A and using it when calling something that expects values from
> Enumeration B. I agree that that would be confusing, and possibly get me
> into trouble on
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Quincey Morris <
quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote:
> Yeah. It seems to me there are two prime reasons to use a specific
> constant:
>
But I'm explicitly talking about APIs where there exists no such constant,
and calling code would generally use a litera
On Oct 17, 2013, at 14:35 , Seth Willits wrote:
> It's too easy in my mind to misuse a "universal" constant.
Yeah. It seems to me there are two prime reasons to use a specific constant:
1. Apple's SDKs are gradually moving towards using enums that can be (somewhat)
type-checked at compile time
On Oct 17, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Sixten Otto wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Seth Willits wrote:
>> I would be hesitant to get used to such a constant.
>
> I'll bite: why?
As each API is potentially different from others, it's best to use the
constants provided. Using a constant from a
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Seth Willits wrote:
> I would be hesitant to get used to such a constant.
>
I'll bite: why?
> Many APIs have their own constants for default options. (Search for
> DefaultOptions, OptionsDefault, NoOptions, and OptionsNone.)
>
Obviously. And those generally s
On Oct 17, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Sixten Otto wrote:
> I remember coming across a reference somewhere recently to a constant
> defined in Foundation or Core Foundations (I think!) that has a zero value,
> and semantically means "I choose no options".
I know of no constant that would apply universall
I am not sure that there is a catch-all 'no options' constant.
I did find framework specific examples like
kCFDateFormatterNoStyle, kCFNumberFormatterNoStyle, kCollectionDontWantTag,
kCollectionDontWantId, kCollectionDontWantSize,
kCollectionDontWantAttributes, kCollectionDon
This has been driving me crazy, and hopefully someone on the list will know
off the top…
I remember coming across a reference somewhere recently to a constant
defined in Foundation or Core Foundations (I think!) that has a zero value,
and semantically means "I choose no options". Something that wo
