Re: Change type signature of objectForKey: ?

[David Ayers]

Richard Frith-Macdonald schrieb:
> The -objectForKey: and -setobject:forKey: methods exist in 
> NSUserDefaults and NSDictionary with two different type signatures.
> 
> For NSDictionary the key is of type 'id' but for NSUserDefaults it is 
> of type 'NSString*'
> 
> This can cause a lot of irritating compiler warnings when using these 
> methods, so I was wondering if we should standardise on the 'id'  type,
> and just have NSUserDefaults perform a runtime check (or even  use [key
> description] to be sure that a key is a string).
> That would mean that the formally declared API for NSUserDefaults  would
> differ slightly from the MacOS-X version, but it should not  cause any
> problems that I can see.
> What do people think?

Fine by me!  The flood of such warning often hide real issues.

Cheers,
David