Objective-C and runtime type inspection

[Ryan Rawson]

what structures?  There _are_ no structures to inspect... All you have
is an opaque object reference that you can then send messages to.

Objective C is more like smalltalk than C++/Java/etc.  You cannot mess
with the fields of an object.  They are 100% opaque (technically they
are C structs, but you are asking for trouble to inspect them).

Also, why doesn't your email thread up with the other message?

-ryan

On 8/17/06, Joel Reymont <joelr1@REDACTED> wrote:
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> On Aug 17, 2006, at 6:01 PM, Ryan Rawson wrote:
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> > In fact, why bother with run-time type inspection?  Just send a
> > message to an object and be prepared to handle the exception...
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> To perform translations of structures and the like, I suppose.
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