Re: What class are you?

[Rick Riolo]

I think you can do this:
  [[yourObject class] name]
to get a string with the class name back.
See Next book in appendix C under class and instance methods.
  - r

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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Sven N. Thommesen wrote:

> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 09:29:19 -0500
> From: Sven N. Thommesen <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: What class are you?
> 
> 
> 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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