D versus Objective C Comparison

John Reimer terminal.node at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 17:54:13 PST 2009


Hello Bill,

> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
> 
>> "Michel Fortin" <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote in message
>> news:gmbt40$18pb$2 at digitalmars.com...
>> 
>>> Perhaps it's offtopic in a D forum, but you should use the class
>>> NSCharacterSet for that if you want to be efficient. There's a
>>> couple of methods in NSString accepting NSCharacterSet too which you
>>> may be interested in if you're writing a parser.
>>> 
>> Nick Sabalausky is curious what the "NS" stands for in "NSString" and
>> "NSCharacterSet"...?
>> 
> I believe it is for "NextStep".
> 
> --bb
> 


I'm pretty sure that is the case.  That's one element, though, that I find 
annoying about the language libraries.  I think the notation looks ugly.


Sorry Nick, it doesn't stand for "Nick Sabalausky". ;D


-JJR





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