Re: Objective-C and it's future

FROM : Damien Sorresso
DATE : Sat Jul 08 03:14:42 2006

On 7 Jul, 2006, at 8:07 PM, Shawn Erickson wrote:
> ...but the point is you could implement classes that are specific
> about what they return (I often do that with my init methods) and the
> compiler would flag this for you.


But you must also remember that this only works for classes *you* 
write. You cannot statically type Apple's classes in the way you 
would if they were written in C++ because, without any exception I'm 
aware of, all their `init' methods return the `id' type.

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Damien Sorresso

Mac OS X Developer
Computer Infrastructure Support Services
Illinois State University
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