On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Sherm Pendley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: >> isKindOfClass: is an instance method and doesn't work on a class you get >> from NSClassFromString(). > > Because NSObject is a root class (i.e. it has no superclass), you > *can* send its -isKindOfClass: message to a Class object. Instance > methods that belong to a root class are special that way.
You can send it, but it probably doesn't do what you want. E.g. [NSString isKindOfClass:[NSString class]] will return NO, because the NSString class object is not an instance of NSString. I'd say this probably qualifies as "doesn't work", even though it doesn't crash or anything. Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
