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Re: proof of cocoa superiority?
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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




"The problem with trying to child-proof the world, is that it makes people neglect the far more important task of world-proofing the child." -- Hugh Daniel


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