On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:43 PM, j o a r <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On May 31, 2008, at 12:23 AM, Michael Ash wrote:
>
>> Assume the following class hierarchy:
>>
>> A <- B <- C <- D <- E
>>
>> In the implementation of B, you write [self superclass]. Now your
>> method executes with self set to an instance of E. What do you get?
>
>
> I would propose that you should re-examine your design if you find that to
> be a problem in practice:
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_smell>
As has been noted, this is a common problem in AppKit code. It happens
any time you subclass a subclass of NSView and implement
-awakeFromNib. If you then subclass that subclass (something which
doesn't smell to me even a little bit) then the naive solution breaks
badly.
Mike
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