Hi Greg, Is that wishful thinking or a hint about the future? :-)
All I have to say is: yes please!! Regards, Karl On 03/08/2011, at 5:43 AM, Greg Parker wrote: > On Aug 1, 2011, at 9:02 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: >> if we had class storage (which in practice would be no different from >> static global variables except for scope), class methods would still >> be appropriate for a different set of tasks. > > Not necessarily. Class variables could be defined differently from global > variables. If a class variable were defined in the natural way, as an > instance variable for the class instance described by the metaclass, then > class variables would be inherited in the same way that instance variables > are. A subclass object would have its own copy of its superclass's variables, > just like a subclass instance object has its own copy of its superclass > instance's variables. > > -- > Greg Parker [email protected] Runtime Wrangler > > _______________________________________________ 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]
