LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter
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HN comment orderResponding to a variety of questions made over the years about this: This is a constant intended to be displayed after localizing the constant. Its localized value will primarily be displayed to users whose preferred languages have a short word describing the relationship. But it ALSO needs at least some comprehensible localization in EVERY language, because I can send you a vcard for myself labeling this specific type of cousin (because that’s how I think of her), and I don’t…
HNPastRelatedThreadWithSimilarComments: CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341855 - July 2019 (176 comments)
At first glance this looked like a code smell, but after some reflection I can't think of a cleaner, more readable way to uniquely identify each possible relationship -- especially in a strongly-typed language with an IDE. Here's the full list: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/contacts_...
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-03 | CNLabelContactRelation​YoungerCousin​MothersSiblingsDaughter​OrFathersSistersDaughterFirst breakout | wonderfuly | 211 | 176 |
| 2021-09-30 | CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaught | busymom0 | 242 | 132 |
| 2023-09-21 | LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughterBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | atulvi | 325 | 263 |