RE: Selectors and categories in GNUstep (porting from Cocoa)

[Mondragon, Ian]

macro time :-\

- ian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Frith-Macdonald [SMTP:richard@brainstorm.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 10:10 AM
> To:   GNUstep discussion list
> Subject:      Fwd: Selectors and categories in GNUstep (porting from
> Cocoa)
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> > From: Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk>
> > Date: Thu May 09, 2002  04:04:12 PM Europe/London
> > To: "Mondragon, Ian" <ian.mondragon@bankofamerica.com>
> > Cc: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org@alice.turbocat.de
> > Subject: Re: Selectors and categories in GNUstep (porting from Cocoa)
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, May 9, 2002, at 03:50 PM, Mondragon, Ian wrote:
> >
> >> is this true?  what exactly would need to change in order to be able to
> >> compare them with == ?
> >
> > Hack the compiler and rewrite the runtime :-)
> > Actually, I don't know hw much rewriting would be involved, but I think 
> > there would
> > be problems as selector management is quite intimately tied to sparse 
> > array lookup
> > code for the very quick method lookup that the gnu runtime provides.
> >
> >>  would it even be possible/worth the effort?
> >
> > Probably not.
> >
> >> granted
> >> this is not a difference that is going to rear it's ugly head daily, 
> >> but
> >> this seems like one situation that could/will cause problems in porting
> >> apps...aside from it being a pain in the neck.
> >
> > Yes ... probably the simplest useful change that could be made is if 
> > the compiler
> > could warn about selector equality checks when building for the gnu 
> > runtime.
> >
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