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There’s speculation that, in the final version, the seperator may be a full page break.

“…I appreciate Gruber’s complaint for all its pedantic charm.”

I would say that there is not a trace of the pedant in any of Gruber’s post, it is merely idiosyncratic and fastidious.

The very first line of his post “As a stickler for detail and consistency, this has been driving me nuts ever since the framework was announced.” makes this rather plain.

Pedantic relates specifically to form, procedure, or learning (knowledge). Thus within the definitions of the word, a pedant can be called narrow-minded, for example, but it is only applicable if he is in fact narrow-minded in his adherence to form, procedure, or learning.

Gruber’s last line “But I don’t really care which spelling Apple settles on, I just want it settled.” indicated that he does not care at all about form, procedure, or learning (knowledge), and therefore falls outside of the definitions of the word.

One can find “pedantic charm,” however, in sentence like “By using the sans-espace WebKit nomenclature, the author communicates to developers that the framework itself is specifically being referred to. “A narrow-minded observation of form” could be appropriately used by a critic to describe that sentence. In that sentence you justify the use of the naming form and leave out the possibility of non-developers having trouble interpreting the the word’s additional meaning.

Although there are several definitions of the word, especially cross-referencing British and American English dictionaries, I have chosen one to illustrate the dependence of the word to form, procedure, or learning (knowledge).

And of course, my reply is rather pedantic…

I love Red Sweater and Daring Fireball, both are exceptionally creative and interesting reads.

Keep up the good work ^^;

I’m not convinced by arguments that rationalize the inconsistency. I agree that “PDFKit” and “IOKit” look perfectly okay — I had the same thought when I read John’s article. I wish they had left the spaces out everywhere.

The “Application Kit” / “AppKit” distinction actually cost me a tiny bit of development time, since there are places where AppKiDo has to realize they’re the same thing (it standardizes on “AppKit” for all display purposes, by the way).

Speaking of consistent wording, I noticed the docs for the various versions of -setDelegate: all use different wordings to say “sets the delegate,” and only some of them mention that it doesn’t retain the delegate. I didn’t bother asking that all the docs use the same wording, but I did submit a comment saying they should all mention the non-retaining, because it’s the kind of thing a person could easily trip on.