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Re: When did forward method references become legal?
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Re: When did forward method references become legal?


  • Subject: Re: When did forward method references become legal?
  • From: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:26:10 -0500
  • Organization: Rogue Research Inc.

On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 10:14:31 -0800, Jens Alfke said:

>I just discovered by accident that you no longer need to forward-declare
>an Obj-C method that's called above the source line where it’s implemented:
>
>	@implementation Foo
>	- (void) first { [self second]; }   // <—no longer a compile error
>	- (void) second { }
>
>I’m using Xcode 4.3; anyone know what version this was added in? I
>didn’t see anything relevant in the very cursory Xcode release notes or
>what’s-new document, and I couldn’t find any Clang release notes.

Isn't it annoying that the very language changes in this way, without (hardly) any notice?!?!

There is something to be said to having a proper ISO standard for the language definition.  As it is, a compiler (clang) gets better and the de facto language changes.

Anyway, to answer your question: since this:
http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&revision=138865

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