Re: Objective-C and it's future
Re: Objective-C and it's future
- Subject: Re: Objective-C and it's future
- From: Ryan Stevens <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 10:13:28 -0700
On Jul 7, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Thomas Davie wrote:
Hi,
I'm wondering if there's a more suitable place to ask about/
contribute to the future of Objective-C. I am particularly
interested in giving the language a decent type system. At the
moment I feel that it's type system is far too week for the jobs
that we are trying to do with it when writing Cocoa apps. We very
rarely need hardware access or in fact any low level access of any
kind, and as such, I suspect that a much stronger type system could
be used. The most basic extension of the type system I can think
of is to allow something akin to generics, or ADTs to allow us to
specify such things as what type of object an array contains.
So questions here really are (a) is there a more appropriate place
to post this, (b) opinions on Objective-C's type system.
Bob
Make a crafty category or subclass(es) - remembering no-ivars-in-
categories and class-cluster woes. Oh, and don't forget posing, that
can come in handy too sometimes.
next...
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