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Has anyone actually considered this may be a running joke at Apple? I mean yes, their API's can be quite verbose on naming, but this is just hilarious, and prob
by dapids 5y ago
Has anyone actually considered this may be a running joke at Apple? I mean yes, their API's can be quite verbose on naming, but this is just hilarious, and probably left that way. Just a thought. To critique a development practice based on the few names that are like this seems a little shortsighted. This type of contact classification is useless, and probably better left to the programmer to design the hierarchy that best suits their design goal.
- joe_guy 5y agoNothing says humor like shipping unfunny jokes to production.
- kall 5y agoI think Apple only considers the end user part of their systems "production". Developer experience is more "best effort".
- busymom0 5y agoHere's more long names: https://old.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/pya17f/whats_the_longest_function_name_you_ran_into_in/ https://old.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/pya17f/what...
- dapids 5y agoWow congrats, you found a whole of two long names. _clapping_
- hn_throwaway_99 5y ago> This type of contact classification is useless As another commenter mentioned, no, it's not. It's required in Chinese. In English you would just say "This is my cousin", but in Chinese, the word for "cousin" changes depending on the details of how that person is related to you.
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoI was wondering how they'd use this label, but of course it's to categorize one's contacts!
- dapids 5y agoWhy even use this when there is a custom contact string where you can specify just that regardless of language? This label on it's face is useless when the underlying API makes it so easy to just define your own label. Have you actually used this before? Sounds like you haven't. Others have also commented this is useless when you can define your own label.