Re: Objective-C and it's future

FROM : Thomas Davie
DATE : Sat Jul 08 02:42:59 2006

On 8 Jul 2006, at 01:41, Shawn Erickson wrote:

> On 7/7/06, Rob Ross <<email_removed>> wrote:
>

>> I'm just learning Obj-C myself, so maybe my understanding is not
>> correct. But, don't you actually have the option to use static typing
>> in certain instances, and use dynamic typing in others?
>>
>> Eg:
>>
>> id      myStr;
>>
>> vs
>>
>> NSString *myStr;
>>
>> Won't the second version give you the benefits of static typing
>> (compiler time checking)?
>>
>> So my understanding is you can have the best of both worlds. Or have
>> I misunderstood something?

>
> Correct.


That is correct, but can you specify for me an NSArray containing 
only items that respond to a specific display method?

This is the sort of check that I would like to be able to do at 
compile time.

Bob