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FindTheLongestIdentifierNameInCocoaFramework

10 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2016-08-18 · latest 2026-10-24

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  1. These kind of complaints get tiresome, here for some Objective-C fun, https://github.com/Quotation/LongestCocoa
  2. Or Objective-C, https://github.com/Quotation/LongestCocoa Or Smalltalk or C++, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns Or even C, https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Structured-Analysis-Edward-You... Point being, people like to blame Java,…
  3. …Since we are in a Apple discussion thread, here is some Objective-C ids from Apple frameworks, https://github.com/Quotation/LongestCocoa I also advise getting hold of the original WebObjects documentation in Objective-C, before its port to…
  4. I rather see the Objective-C one, https://github.com/Quotation/LongestCocoa
    comment by pjmlp · 2025-05-16 · in The Awful German Language (1880)
  5. …you would need to add all parameter names to the identifier. Here, enjoy https://github.com/Quotation/LongestCocoa There is even a style guide on it, https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...
    comment by pjmlp · 2025-04-29 · in Migrating away from Rust
  6. …understand why they made that tradeoff given some of the long identifiers Swift inherited) [1]. [1] https://github.com/Quotation/LongestCocoa
    comment by throwitaway1123 · 2024-09-18 · in Swift 6
  7. …so my performance for at least two of the six interviews I had that day were a bit weak). [1]: https://github.com/Quotation/LongestCocoa
    comment by cableshaft · 2024-05-07 · in Coding interviews are stupid (ish)
  8. …kCMBufferQueueTrigger_WhenDurationBecomesGreaterThanOrEqualToAndBufferCountBecomesGreaterThan Source: https://github.com/Quotation/LongestCocoa
  9. So, Apple is a German company ( https://github.com/Quotation/LongestCocoa )? (I like long names, but also think this can be overdone)
    comment by Someone · 2020-06-29 · in German Naming Convention (2019)
  10. …they'll be used to having crazy long method / variable names. You can find a list of examples here: https://github.com/Quotation/LongestCocoa Edit: I just had to quote the longest one: "outputImageProviderFromBufferWithPixelFormat:pixelsWid…