On 19.10.2010, at 00:32, Graham Cox wrote:
> This is not necessarily a code smell. If it were, why would the tableview 
> object be passed as a parameter to the data source?

 It is a *smell*. I never said it was wrong. A smell is an indicator that 
something is likely wrong, not a sure-fire way to always say: Don't do that.

 However, considering the OP prefixed the posting with a beginner, and this is 
a problem to which the solution would be pretty obvious to someone who has read 
and *understood* the documentation, I thought I'd point out that the *common* 
solution is to have a separate object, not to have a giant switch statement 
like in procedural C.

> Sometimes the same data source for more than one table can be a sensible 
> design.

 Yeah, but think of what the more *common* case would be?

Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
"The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mac-gui-dev/

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