1 Sep
2004
1 Sep
'04
11:02 a.m.
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 08:24:20AM -0400, Pete Bessman wrote:
At Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:49:36 +0100,
Steve Harris wrote:
sure. my only complaint is the lack of namespaces. and maybe missing
class variables, you have to use a static c thing for that.
not to mention the next foundation stuff. it's possible to write high
level portable code using gnustep on linux and cocoa on mac os x. i
just spent days of building an autoconf/automake build system that
runs both on gnustep and cocoa (avoiding gnustep-make but getting some
vars/paths out of it), had to steal some objc compiler/runtime
detection macros from different places...
but we are running straight OT now...
bests,
martin
Obejctive C is OK, it uses messages (smalltalk style) rather than method
calls, and they have some performance limitations, but the class stuff is
all sane.
Good call, I forgot about it at the time of writing. It is quite
nice, and I like how the 'id' type obviates most of the need for
templates. The only complaint I have is that I think the class
declaration/definition syntax is... goofy... But that's certainly
tolerable.