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Re: Compile warnings according to method order
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Re: Compile warnings according to method order


  • Subject: Re: Compile warnings according to method order
  • From: Wincent Colaiuta <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:09:12 +0200

El 10/8/2007, a las 10:57, Martin Kyte escribió:

I thought in my simple understanding methods could go in any order.
warnings look like this and the application indeed does not respond as it should


Building target “RaiseMan” of project “RaiseMan” with configuration “Debug” — (3 warnings)

 'MyDocument' may not respond to '-stopObservingPerson:'
 'MyDocument' may not respond to '-startObservingPerson:'
 'MyDocument' may not respond to '-startObservingPerson:'

Think of the compiler as reading your source file sequentially from beginning to end. When it "sees" a message send like this:


    [self startObservingPerson:p];

It either has to have seen the method definition already (further up in the @implementation in the source file), *or* you need to declare in the @interface (in the header or ".h" file) that your class responds to that selector so that the compiler can "know" about it without having seen the actual method implementation yet:

  - (void)startObservingPerson:(Person *)person;

So you can solve the problem by carefully ordering your method implementations or by predeclaring there existence in the @interface section. As you get more experience and see more code you'll get a feel for which approach is best.

Cheers,
Wincent




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