Re: When you send a message to an object, how does it find the corresponding method?
Re: When you send a message to an object, how does it find the corresponding method?
- Subject: Re: When you send a message to an object, how does it find the corresponding method?
- From: Charles Steinman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 01:47:29 -0700 (PDT)
--- Bob Ueland <email@hidden> wrote:
> When you send a message to an object, how does it
> find the corresponding method? I have a very vague
> and unclear picture of what happens.
>
> [SNIP]
>
> A message is sent to Fraction. But Fraction is not
> an object, itÂ’s a class? I know you can send
> messages to objects but here we are sending to a
> class. Maybe Objective-C treats classes just like
> objects. In that case I have a class-object on the
> heap. But who created that object. In my code I
> never asked for allocation of memory for a
> class-object, so the compiler must have created it
> on its own. Maybe as soon as it sees that I have
> defined a new class it automatically creates one
> class-object which later lives in the heap.
I suggest you read the doc called The Objective-C
Programming Language on Apple's site. It covers how
messaging works as well as the fact that classes are
real objects in Objective-C.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html
Cheers,
Chuck
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