Why do we use a reversed URL identifier like com.yourcompany.noname within Xcode?
Why do we use a reversed URL identifier like com.yourcompany.noname within Xcode?
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Why do we use a reversed URL identifier like com.yourcompany.noname within Xcode?
Same as in Java – to uniquely identify ourselves. The assumption is that if you have a URL, no-one else would use the same string.
Now why it’s reversed, it’s guesswork, but I’d say the question is wrong: it’s the hostnames that originally got it “wrong” starting with the most specific thing, and it perpetuated down the history. URL of the form
http:com.yourcompany.noname/bigdir/littledir/file#fragmentwould make much more sense(*), where you start with the most global thing, and end up with the tiniest detail, just like when reading time, or arabic numerals.(Most date formats also did this wrong – the only logically consistent format is
YYYY/MM/DD, if we use numbers like we do, with the smallest unit on the right).*) Also, the creator of the URL, if I remember correctly, is on the record for saying that his biggest regret is the two slashes. EDIT: found it