CNLabelContactRelation&NegativeMediumSpace;YoungerCousin&NegativeMediumSpace;MothersSiblingsDaughter&NegativeMediumSpace;OrFathersSistersDaughter • Hacker News Board

Re: CNLabelContactRelation&NegativeMediumSpace;YoungerCousin&NegativeMediumSpace;MothersSiblingsDaughter&NegativeMediumSpace;OrFathersSistersDaughter

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Post by whoisthemachine » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 5:04 AM UTC

sixdimensional wrote: post #39

“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” [1] [1] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

And off by one errors

Re: CNLabelContactRelation&NegativeMediumSpace;YoungerCousin&NegativeMediumSpace;MothersSiblingsDaughter&NegativeMediumSpace;OrFathersSistersDaughter

#42

Post by jeromebaek » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 5:05 AM UTC

Help, this post is breaking Hacker News mobile because the title is too long without spaces.

Re: CNLabelContactRelation&NegativeMediumSpace;YoungerCousin&NegativeMediumSpace;MothersSiblingsDaughter&NegativeMediumSpace;OrFathersSistersDaughter

#43

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 5:06 AM UTC

dshields1 wrote: post #2

That label is so long it’s breaking the HN front page layout for me on mobile.

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Re: CNLabelContactRelation&NegativeMediumSpace;YoungerCousin&NegativeMediumSpace;MothersSiblingsDaughter&NegativeMediumSpace;OrFathersSistersDaughter

#44

Post by aaronbrethorst » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 5:06 AM UTC

I'm grateful that Apple at least prefixed this. IIRC, between iOS 11 and 12, Apple added a Contact class somewhere within their standard set of frameworks. I was maintaining an app that used CoreData as a store and did not have prefixed Core Data entity names. And of course it had its own Contact class.

Long story short, I started building against the newer SDK and the app started crashing in the most oblique way possible. Prefixing the entity and class name solved the problem, but I only stumbled on that through a combination of luck, intuition, and half a day of banging my head against a wall.

Re: CNLabelContactRelation&NegativeMediumSpace;YoungerCousin&NegativeMediumSpace;MothersSiblingsDaughter&NegativeMediumSpace;OrFathersSistersDaughter

#45

Post by goatlover » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 5:06 AM UTC

whoisthemachine wrote: post #41

sixdimensional wrote: post #39

“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” [1] [1] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

And off by one errors

If only there were 1 based PLs.

Re: CNLabelContactRelation&NegativeMediumSpace;YoungerCousin&NegativeMediumSpace;MothersSiblingsDaughter&NegativeMediumSpace;OrFathersSistersDaughter

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Post by mraison » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 5:12 AM UTC

There’s also CNLabelContactRelationColleauge. Oops :)

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/cnlabelco...

Re: CNLabelContactRelation&NegativeMediumSpace;YoungerCousin&NegativeMediumSpace;MothersSiblingsDaughter&NegativeMediumSpace;OrFathersSistersDaughter

#47

Post by shaggyfrog » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 5:16 AM UTC

NativLang did a video about kinship systems that is relevant here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOi2c2d3_Lk

Re: CNLabelContactRelation&NegativeMediumSpace;YoungerCousin&NegativeMediumSpace;MothersSiblingsDaughter&NegativeMediumSpace;OrFathersSistersDaughter

#48

Post by eridius » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 5:17 AM UTC

ridaj wrote: post #32

yorwba wrote: post #6

表姐, in case you were wondering.

Exactly... Could it not just have been named CNContactLabelRelation表姐 ?

Is Chinese the only language with this relationship?

Also, identifiers in Apple frameworks are always ASCII.

Re: CNLabelContactRelation&NegativeMediumSpace;YoungerCousin&NegativeMediumSpace;MothersSiblingsDaughter&NegativeMediumSpace;OrFathersSistersDaughter

#49

Post by eridius » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 5:18 AM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #10

Is this just one of those exceptional cases when having a strict variable naming convention doesn't work out?

What else would you name it?

Re: CNLabelContactRelation&NegativeMediumSpace;YoungerCousin&NegativeMediumSpace;MothersSiblingsDaughter&NegativeMediumSpace;OrFathersSistersDaughter

#50

Post by ridiculous_fish » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 5:22 AM UTC

Winforms has some gems:

DataGridViewColumnDividerDoubleClickEventArgs

ListViewVirtualItemsSelectionRangeChangedEventHandler