Edge Cases 88: Tuple for Your Thoughts?

Edge Cases

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the simplest of things, the tuple: what it is, how it is used in other languages (specifically Python), and how, in an alternate universe, it could bring some sanity to Cocoa error handling.

Links:

• Mark All as Read « Brent Simmons (inessential.com)
• Tuple « Wikipedia
• Andrew Pontious tweet: “Y’know, blocks aren’t a great substitute for tuples, but that are a substitute for tuples…sometimes.”
• os.walk « 16.1. os — Miscellaneous operating system interfaces — Python 3.4.0 documentation
• Python Programming/Tuples « Wikibooks
• If You Look at the Error, You Will Crash « Edge Cases
• An NSError Error « Big Nerd Ranch Blog
• Bill Bumgarner tweet: “@rentzsch There are methods that very much do scribble on the error argument, if non-NULL, and will not reset-to-NULL on success.”
• std::tuple « cppreference.com
• javatuples
• Tuple Class (System) « MSDN Library
• 19. Beyond Exception Handling: Conditions and Restarts « Practical Common Lisp, by Peter Seibel

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Oh, That’s Horrible
• Our Day-ta/Dahh-ta Argument
• His Love Is Unconditional
• You Lose Some Cred Points Right There
• The Absolute Wrong Way to Do It
• A Bunch of Bother
• I Forgot the ‘F’
• Wanna Grab Some Lunch?
• A Series of Fixed Objects
• Wolf, You Love It When I Read Code
• A Lot of Stuff to Unpack
• The Idiocy of Using URLs as File References
• “This Method Is Spelled Correctly”
• Who Reads Documentation?
• Singles, Doubles, Triples
• Incredibly Verbose
• Better Living with Tuples
• A Textbook Case of Not Using Tuples
• They Don’t Really Work Together Very Well
• There’s an Error, but I Don’t Care
• Remember When We Used to Pass Structs Around?
• C++ Is the Kitchen Sink of Languages
• Maybe I Was Young and Naive
• I’m Sure Somebody’s Done That
• Kind of a Tourist Trip
• You Should Feel in Good Company
• Not Like an Animal