Why so few binary method selectors? Because they're bad!

Reinier van Loon R.L.J.M.W.van.Loon at inter.nl.net
Tue Mar 16 20:40:47 UTC 1999


>down, let me ask the group a question. If we could have long binary
>method selectors, what would be the first one you would define, and what
>would it do? Best regards. -- Ward
None.

I think binary selectors make code harder to read.
I'm still having troubles explaining == and = to people.
sameAs: and equals: would have been better IMHO.

The other problem with binary selectors is that they might get multiple
meanings.

Reinier.





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