On Feb 22, 2014, at 9:33 AM, [email protected] wrote: > On 22 Feb 2014, at 14:27, Jonathan Hull <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think the main objection everyone has is that they believe (as did I) that >> -getValue: is actually returning the internal representation of the object. > > That is a very pertinent point that we haven’t mentioned. > -getValue: populates a pointer to a type matching -objCType.
But there's no guarantee about what that type is. There's no guarantee that it's a scalar rather than a structure, say. There's no guarantee that a given class always uses the same type, even for the same logical value. > Hence NSDecimal -getValue: populates a pointer to a double. Not necessarily. That's my point. Regards, Ken _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
