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Re: super respondsToSelector


  • Subject: Re: super respondsToSelector
  • From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 23:55:16 -0700

On May 30, 2008, at 11:43 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
If you actually want to ask a question of your class's superclass, you have to do so directly:
[[[self class] superclass] instancesRespondToSelector: aSelector]

Well... yeah... you *can* do that.

But *don't do that*. (And I know Jens knows better -- I'm just pointing something out).

Any code that relies upon *skipping* super's implementation of something to get something done is just asking for trouble.

b.bum

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