Re: NEWBIE: Why use protocols?
Re: NEWBIE: Why use protocols?
- Subject: Re: NEWBIE: Why use protocols?
- From: "Ben D. Jones" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 14:50:14 -0400
Thanks Bob,
Thats what I was trying to get at. Couldn't figure out if it
was an optional thing or that in some cases its required. Thanks man!
~Ben
On May 18, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Thomas Davie wrote:
On May 18, 2005, at 7:32 PM, Ben D. Jones wrote:
The reason I ask is that I'm actually starting on a very large
project (my first big project) in Cocoa. Having done large
projects in C I'm not a newbie to programming, just Cocoa. So in
what cases (example of use) would it be needed or proper to use
protocols?
It is never *needed* to use protocols in the same way as you could
define every pointer in C as a void*, it's merely another
convenience of the language that assists you the programmer in
getting your job right. If an object is supposed to subscribe to a
protocol, then the type checker can check that you haven't bungled
your code for you :)
Bob
Ben D. Jones
Apricle Technologies
http://www.apricle.net
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