Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt.
Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt.
- Subject: Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt.
- From: Sheehan Olver <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 18:11:34 -0400
I think the issue with not having truly private methods (as opposed to
undocumented but accessible private methods) is mostly in comparison to
Java, where the ability to access private methods can affect System
security when run from a web page. Of course, if malicious Objective-C
code is being called, then even with a private flag the malicious code
can always just use regular old C code to get access to anything.
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 01:00 AM,
email@hidden wrote:
As for others being unable to call private methods/functions, all the
other programmer needs to be able to do is grep your symbol table and
know how the compiler mangles the language you used; dyld functions
provide the rest. The question is why someone else would go to so much
trouble to find an SPI, and what functionality is so glaringly missing
from your public API to make them do so.
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