Re: What framework & language is good for an old C++ mule.
Re: What framework & language is good for an old C++ mule.
- Subject: Re: What framework & language is good for an old C++ mule.
- From: "Shawn Erickson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:41:13 -0800
On 3/13/06, Pierce T. Wetter III <email@hidden> wrote:
> Categories:
>
> If you're a C++ mule, you're probably intimately familiar with
> the fragile base class problem.
>
> Much, much harder to get into that situation with Objc because
> you can add methods as needed to existing classes. If you look at the
> sample code out there, all of them add a whole set of utilities to
> the Apple base classes.
Even without using categories you can add (or remove) methods from
your own classes (say living in a private framework) without the need
to recompile code that used the framework. This is because in ObjC
messages are bound to methods at runtime not locked down at compile
time like in C++.
-Shawn
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