Re: proof of cocoa superiority?
Re: proof of cocoa superiority?
- Subject: Re: proof of cocoa superiority?
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 16:52:43 -0700
On Sunday, June 10, 2001, at 03:03 PM, Stefan Arentz wrote:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 02:25:22PM -0700, John C. Randolph wrote:
On Sunday, June 10, 2001, at 12:02 PM, Stefan Arentz wrote:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 11:30:35AM -0700, John C. Randolph wrote:
As I recall, Apple has a patent on key-value coding.
Uh. What's is that?
The ability to address the ivars of an object as if the object were a
dictionary.
How's that different from object introspection? That's already present
in plain ObjC right?
Not quite. Have a look at this page:
file://localhost/Developer/Documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/ObjC_classic/
Protocols/NSKeyValueCoding.html
-jcr
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