Yes, I am *very* much aware that the NS* collection classes are much
better designs than the java ones. NSArray, NSDictionary and NSSet,
and mutable counterparts - the simplicity is delightful (at least then
compared to java's terrifying heap of trash - TreeMaps, HasMaps,
ArrayLists, Vectors, Arrays, AbstractSets, etc, etc...)
But I've found that common generic java programmers that I've hired
are uncomfortable with the foundation collection classes - and perhaps
understandably so - they've been brought up and trained to use java
collections.
IMHO, collections are such an integral part of a language, that Apple
should be using the standard architecture. The only reason I can see
for keeping the current collection classes is KVC - and that should be
solvable by creating custom behaviors for collection objects in
NSKeyValueCodingUtility.valueForKeyPath.
I don't like the current situation, where we have immutable
collections implementing "optional" methods like "add" and "remove"
and throwing an exception during runtime. That's beyond stupid, and
causes us some grief. If dropping the foundation classes is
impossible, then perhaps Apple could opensource the foundation
libraries, so we can create open source class libraries for non WO
applications that utilize the standard foundation collections. In
fact, I'd like that :-).
- hugi
// Hugi Thordarson
// http://hugi.karlmenn.is/
On 31.3.2009, at 19:59, Mike Schrag wrote:
answer to this conundrum.
Also, you lose a lot of really nice methods on the immutable ones
like arrayByAddingObject ...
Not to mention KVC...
yikes ... = killer.
ms
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