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Re: What's with these redundant methods ?
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Re: What's with these redundant methods ?


  • Subject: Re: What's with these redundant methods ?
  • From: Lloyd Dupont <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:21:21 +1000

Why don't you inherit from NSObject? Easier all around...

Not portable. My ObjC code currently runs on NeXT, FreeBSD, linux,
Solaris and even windoze(w/cygnus). I would need a much more compelling
reason to inherit from a repackaged root class than to pick up on these 2.
I do protest, GNUstep implement NSObject as well ! as does NeXTSTeP 3.3 ! (or 4.3, my memory is not what it used to be :-)
and the retain/release mechanism is a very usefull addition !

Object doesn't respond to these methods, but the similar:

- (BOOL) respondsTo:(SEL)aSelector;
- (IMP) methodFor:(SEL)aSelector;

I know. That's why I said that I added a category that reimplements the NSObject
versions by calling these 2.

My question was more "why were these reimplemented in NSObject" ?

In fact, while I'm at it, why is there an NSObject ?

because of this new memory policy (retai/release), and some other thing and to let all code wrok erfectly without being perturbated by these breaking change in the root object ....
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