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This style of naming is common on everything Apple, all their APIs and SDKs and most things in Objective-C/Swift are verbose like this, it’s on purpose. I pers

• smoldesu 5y ago
  I don't particularly mind it, but it does invoke unwelcome memories of sifting through an endless purgatory of PowerShell parameters...
• eyelidlessness 5y ago
  I’m a big proponent of verbose naming, but I suppose I should say in this context that I generally have a negative preference for terse naming. There are some exceptions to that preference, usually deferring to idiomatic usage, e.g.: - i or idx is often preferred over index - fn or fun is often used where function is a reserved word That said, I’m also cognitively sensitive to column width. I’m not “80 columns or fight”, but I definitely find longer lines of code challenging to follow. As such I prefer to balance verbosity by deferring to the context (lexical scope, imported module name/hierarchy, file name/path, general contextual assumptions that you’d already need to be effective in the codebase). I find both extremes jarring, and there’s usually an opportunity to optimize for both local understanding and reading without reaching those extremes (of course at the expense of keystrokes/autocomplete pitfalls, but once you’ve embraced verbosity at any level that’s assumed).
  • Koshkin 5y ago
    Indeed, the use of standardized mnemonics and abbreviations rather than this kind of extreme verbosity is the key to code readability.
    • eyelidlessness 5y ago
      when it’s commonly understood!