Re: Category or Protocol? (sidetrack)

FROM : Ondra Cada
DATE : Fri Apr 22 01:45:05 2005

John,

On 21.4.2005, at 1:41, John Stiles wrote:

> theoretically if you had two classes with a Foo() method, you could
> add a parameter to Foo() in class A and not class B, and the editor
> could find all the instances of the Foo() method in class A and not
> class B. This isn't possible with grep :)


More than that: in fact, it is not possible *at all* :))

(Not even with Java, see reflection/NSSelector/action-target/first
responder stuff... And of course, even *considerably* less with ObjC or
another decent language.)
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