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Re: Could somebody please fix NSTimer?
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Re: Could somebody please fix NSTimer?


  • Subject: Re: Could somebody please fix NSTimer?
  • From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:38:37 -0800

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Charles Srstka wrote:
> Not impossible at all. All you have to do is add a new API, as for
> instance NSMapTable did in 10.8. Old code that continues to use the old
> API continues to get the existing behavior.

Given that Gordon's explicit use case involves one part of his app
setting up timers that point at objects in other parts of his app that
know nothing of the timers' existence, this sounds like a fragility
nightmare.

The NSTimer ship has sailed.

--Kyle Sluder
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