What class are you?

[Sven N. Thommesen]

I'm having to track down a bug where an object appearing in a list is not
the kind it is supposed to be (!).

Does anyone know what the syntax is for getting the class name of the
offending object back, as a printable string?

The Next book discusses the boolean methods "isKindOf: [Class someClass]"
and "isMemberOf: [Class someClass]", but using those would quickly get
tedious ...
[are you a witch? no, how about a troll? maybe an ogre? etc. etc.]

In fact, the Next book discusses many methods in its early chapters that
are not mentioned in the formal language definition, which leads me to
believe the runtime system is involved. So: where do I find comprehensive
documentation for the objects and methods available with the GNU version of
ObjectiveC?

Any pointers (not id's) appreciated,
Sven


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