Re: Future Objective-C changes
Re: Future Objective-C changes
- Subject: Re: Future Objective-C changes
- From: Jim Rankin <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 17:59:31 -0400
I'm also in the "keep Objective-C elegant and simple" camp. I want a
few simple to understand constructs that can interact in powerful ways.
My feeling is that the more "features" you add to a language, the more
ways the language can bite you in unexpected ways.
I thought the recent thread on memory management was a good example of
this, where several people pointed out that garbage collection was a
poor fit for many application domains as opposed to retain/release
reference counting. Some people have pointed out in this thread, too,
that adding "static language" type features to ObjC would break some of
the cool, dynamic things you can do witht the language now.
Sometimes the best decision is to leave it alone.
IMHO,
-jimbo
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