It's never before fully struck me how cleanly the "Objective-C is too verbose" complaint really breaks down to two separate issues: one of them being that method names are long (which is arguably a plus) and the other being mostly comprised of the stuff that's apparently mostly taken care of with this release. Actually, I suppose there used to be a third, too: (auto)release/retain statements all over the place.
As somebody who loves the long method names but of course wants less syntactic cruft, I'm really happy with their recent progress.
Kind of. It does not apply to all Cocoa libraries and you need to follow certain conventions, otherwise the compiler will fail to add the release/retain calls.
As somebody who loves the long method names but of course wants less syntactic cruft, I'm really happy with their recent progress.