On: Objective-C is a Piece of Shit

[darkchasma]

Since Obj-C messaging supports duck typing, I'm not sure I understand the argument you're making against the syntax.

[chc → darkchasma]

I believe dguaraglia is talking about the types of arguments, which are often included in the method name. So you get things like [guy eatFood:food withHand:hand usingEatingStyle:eatingStyle]. Overall, it lends itself to exceptionally long lines of code, such that Objective-C message sends are often broken into multiple lines with lots of info on the right side of the window. For example, instead of:

  NSWindow *window = [[NSWindow alloc] initWithContentRect:(NSRect)contentRect styleMask:(NSUInteger)windowStyle backing:(NSBackingStoreType)bufferingType defer:(BOOL)deferCreation screen:(NSScreen *)screen];

people will often write write:

  NSWindow *window = [[NSWindow alloc] initWithContentRect: desiredRect
                                                 styleMask: windowStyle
                                                   backing: NSBackingStoreBuffered
                                                     defer: YES
                                                    screen: [NSScreen mainScreen]];

The length of the selector requires us to choose how we're going to write this line of code.

[_euac → darkchasma]

I might have talked out of my ass? Wouldn't be the first time, and I apologize if I did.