Re: Why does NSDictionary respond to @selector(name)?

[Andreas Hoeschler]

Hi all,

> I think your problem happens because gnustep's NSObject has a method
>
> - (const char *) name
>
> which is for compatibility with the (very old) NEXTSTEP Object class.
>
> Maybe if nobody uses that method we should drop it.

I would appreciate this. I don't know exactly but I don't think this is 
OPENSTEP spec. A dictionary responding to -name sounds a bit weird to 
me. I will probably not be(stay) the only one that gets caught by this.

Anyway, thanks for the hint. This at least explains the behavior.

Regards,

   Andreas