Xcode Constantly Phones Home

Post by hulitu » Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 9:38 PM UTC

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #33

Makes sense, and it is annoying, but there’s a lot of annoying stuff in Xcode. Looking at the console can get rather depressing. There’s a lot of “noise” in there, that is basically sound and fury, signifying nothing. I get tired of googling errors and warnings (I compile -wall, and take every warning seriously), only to realize they are meaningless “background noise,” due to the system trying to generate code for pl…

Post by saagarjha » Tue, Mar 04, 2025, 8:09 AM UTC

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #43

saagarjha wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean you're going to tell me that this a rehash of what the Stack Overflow people told you but the reason this is a warning is because the external name is meant to aid in readability but the internal name is the one that is actually operated on, so the latter is the one that is actually relevant when documenting what the thing actually is. It would be unreasonable to write documentation for a parameter called "in"…

Yeah, you can look at it that way, but API documentation is for external users, and I prefer to reduce the number of inline comments, inside the function, which is not where the external users will be going, anyway. Most folks will only care about the external name. The internal name is for maintainers. It not only indicates the value is a constant, it also tells you that it has not been altered since entering the fu…