Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 10:13 am, David Ayers wrote:
Currently base exports -(NSData *)MD5Digest (but personnally I would
have preferred md5Digest :-)...)
I'm happy to change that.... will do it next.
:-)
As regards other methods, my feeling is that most of them are trivial
and should not really be put in the base library
(or common additions).
I like the idea you (I think) suggested in an earlier email, of a new
category method of NSData ...
- (NSString*)hexadecimalRepresentation;
[snip]
- (NSData*)hexadecimalRepresentation;
[snip]
While we could obviously have some convenience methods encapsulating
this, my impulse is to keep the API
as small and simple as possible, and write code like that above,
making it clearer what the code is doing.
I don't want to be dogmatic about it though ... if the majority of
people want to include several convenience methods,
I'll do that.
Trick one. On the one hand I agree that keeping the API simple is a
good thing, On the other hand I believe it's important to have
convinience methods for expected uses especially for (a) less
experienced developers and (b) rapid prototyping, and I think (b) is one
of the GNUstep (OK, *step) strong points. So I'll just leave it at that
and remain undecided.(officially ;-) ).
What are the preferences about a hexadecimal representation method
returning NSString or NSData ?
See above :-)
Cheers,
Dave
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