Renaissance: initStarndardStaticNameTable question

[Chris Hanson]

In the initStarndardStaticNameTable function 
(GSMarkupBundleAdditions.m) there's a lookup of first the NSApplication 
class and then the "sharedApplication" selector.  The class is then 
made to perform the selector using +performSelector:.

This gives a compiler warning on Mac OS X 10.3 with Apple's GCC 3.3, 
saying Class may not respond to +performSelector:.  Obviously in this 
case it will, but I was wondering why it was done this way.

It should be possible to replace the whole lookup dance with

  [NSBundle registerStaticObject:[NSApplication sharedApplication]
                        withName:@"NSApp"];

shouldn't it?  After all, initStandardStaticNameTable is always going 
to run after the NSApplication class is loaded; the only reason to do 
the kind of lookup the code is currently doing would be to prevent 
NSApplication from being loaded, isn't it?

  -- Chris

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