On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Andy Lee<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, July 02, 2009, at 11:39AM, "Michael Ash" <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>>On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Marco S Hyman<[email protected]> wrote:
> [...]
>>> That leads directly to something I've been thinking about as one new to
>>> cocoa:
>>> how do you document your bindings?   Any preferred formats other than a text
>>> file stuck somewhere in a project?
>>
>>If you're going to stick your bindings in a text file, why not stick
>>them in a text file which happens to end in .m, and document them in a
>>format that the compiler can understand? In other words, why not just
>>make your bindings in code? Then you can easily see them, you can
>>comment them to your heart's content, you can search for them, and all
>>the other benefits of having stuff not be in your nib.
>
> My first reaction was: "Elegantly put!"  But then I thought, isn't *not* 
> generating this kind of code one of the reasons we tell people nibs are good? 
>  Wouldn't a .m be a good place to "document" targets and actions as well?  
> And delegates and other outlets?  Or do you think there's something about 
> bindings that makes them subtle enough that for *them*, in some cases, it 
> might make sense to "document" them by coding them?

Sure, that would be a fine place to document them. And yes, I don't
think anybody ever does. Why not? Well, I don't think they document
them *anywhere else* either. Target/actions and outlets and such are
simple enough that people don't seem to feel the need to document them
at all.

If for some reason you *did* feel the need to document those, setting
them up in code would be a fine way to go.

Mike
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