Re: Stupid objective-c question
Re: Stupid objective-c question
- Subject: Re: Stupid objective-c question
- From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:36:07 +1000
> On 22 Sep 2016, at 10:40 AM, Quincey Morris <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sep 21, 2016, at 17:01 , Graham Cox <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> This should be: if([(NSString*)context isEqualToString:@“mediaLibraryLoaded”])…
>
> Actually, this is not a good idea either, because *other* observations — ones you don’t control — might use a value that’s not an object, or not even a valid pointer.
Fair point.
Which is yet another reason why void* is such a shitty concept. Apple could easily have insisted that parameter was id<NSObject> without any real problems, so void*… sheesh.
So Gabriel’s alternative is basically to use a global address, as you otherwise suggested.
void* tsk… *goes away muttering*
—Graham
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