Re: why does this method return an id?
Re: why does this method return an id?
- Subject: Re: why does this method return an id?
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:47:34 -0600
On 11 Dec 2011, at 1:53 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:
>> NSAtrributedString * attrString = [NSAttributedString string];
>>
>> is not merely useful, but legal without a downcast.
>
> And, indeed, you did not make it self-consistent. The above code snippet is neither useful nor legal. NSAttributedString is not a subclass of NSString and has no +string class method. For the -string instance method it does have, it would not be safe to assign it to a pointer to NSAttributedString, because it's not an NSAttributedString.
Mistake. I meant NSMutableString.
— F
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