Re: Objective-C and it's future

FROM : Ryan Stevens
DATE : Sat Jul 08 19:13:28 2006

On Jul 7, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Thomas Davie wrote:

> Hi,
>  I'm wondering if there's a more suitable place to ask about/
> contribute to the future of Objective-C.  I am particularly 
> interested in giving the language a decent type system.  At the 
> moment I feel that it's type system is far too week for the jobs 
> that we are trying to do with it when writing Cocoa apps.  We very 
> rarely need hardware access or in fact any low level access of any 
> kind, and as such, I suspect that a much stronger type system could 
> be used.  The most basic extension of the type system I can think 
> of is to allow something akin to generics, or ADTs to allow us to 
> specify such things as what type of object an array contains.
>
> So questions here really are (a) is there a more appropriate place 
> to post this, (b) opinions on Objective-C's type system.
>
> Bob
>


Make a crafty category or subclass(es) - remembering no-ivars-in-
categories and class-cluster woes. Oh, and don't forget posing, that 
can come in handy too sometimes.

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