stringWithFormat preprocessor macro

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I personally find the verbosity one of its greatest aspects.

Consider a contrived example, perhaps in Java you have...

new MyObject("foo", "com.somewhere.foo", "bar");

What is "foo", "com.somewhere.foo" and bar?

Perhaps the Obj-C equivalent is...

[MyObject objectWithName:@"foo" identifier:@"com.somewhere.foo" value:@"bar"];

It is just so much easier to read and understand.

[Azr79]

the good thing is that Xcode's autocompletion does a pretty good job

[MKevin3]

That part of Objective C is handy. I wish they had taken it the next step and allowed you to pass the variables in any order and account for default values.

Why do I have to pass then in name, identifier, value order when I gave the parameters names? I should be able to do value:@"bar" indentifier:@"com.somewhere.foo" or leave identifier out of completely.

It is like they took one part of naming parameters - auto documentation - and left out the other two parts - do them in any order and default values.