Programming Convention Survey of the day

[Kitty234]

Probably based on my (disappointly-small) objective-C experience, I'd see that as being: [anObject copyObjectArray: anArray toRecord: aRecord]; otherwise knows as: anObect.copyObjectArrayToRecord(anArray, aRecord);

[HuntrCkr]

1. is the logical answer... Why do you ask? ;P

[DavidNohejl]

David Lockwood wrote:

It's like reading a sentence that you have to start at the beginning, then jump to the end and read back to the middle.

Something like German? ;P

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[Duncan Edwards Jones]

1 is logical.

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[Maidomax]

No.1

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[Andrew Leeder]

2 of course because I was brought up on K&R and PDP architecture. I'm told being left handed also helps :-D ~A

[Lost User]

1 since that matches the name of the function.

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[Dalek Dave]

Logic says 1 But I would presume from your question that this may not be the case! What has logic to do with programming?

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[Marc Clifton]

David Lockwood wrote:

assembly language does it like that:

Not all. One of the stark differences between the Intel processors and the Motorola processors was the src/dest order. Marc

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[Carlos Mariano]

First. It makes more sense. Carlos

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[thatreallybytes]

#1 makes more sense to me, too...:cool:

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[Mike Doyon]

I'd say 1. Generally speaking, I'd adhere to that logic. Also, I believe that it is common in copy methods to organize parameters as (source, destination).

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[Dan Neely]

1

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[Ponytail Bob]

#1 seems the most logical. If you renamed it CopyToRecordFromObjectArray, then #2. Peace

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[Nish Nishant]

Marc Clifton wrote:

Well, bucking the trend (as usual), whatever it's called, I would expect the destination (target) object to be the first parameter. So, #2!

That's my instinctive reaction too. We've mentally been so used to the destinatioin being the left argument. MOV ax, 9 strcpy(dest,"...") But one subtle difference in Rama's function name is that, it goes slike this :- CopyXtoY(X src_x , Y dest_y) : so here the order actually makes sense . Buthad it been Copy(Y dest_y, X src_x) : then this makes better sense.

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[Tarisai]

True true, true Numero un makes more sense

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[Robert Surtees]

PIP for the win!

[W Balboos GHB]

I prefer (1) as it is intuitive. On the other hand, before I even learned C I learned some Assembly - and got rather used to the target, source order. It was kept constant, and thus did not boggle the mind with inconsistencies. Not so fast: However, (2) has the following going for it: The best way would be to handle this by keeping the setup consistant within a given family of functions (methods, or whatever). Often this means putting the target first, and than various arguement sets would follow (called overloading these days). I do tend to like this consistency of form that target, params allows.

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[M i s t e r L i s t e r]

CopyObjectArrayToRecord( array, record )