Thanks for your help; that change did clear up the warning. I want to
make sure I understand your explanation though: How is [self.sequent
objectAtIndex:lineCount-1] of type "id" as opposed to of type
"DeductionLine" (since self.sequent is an NSArray of DeductionLine
objects)? Is it that at compilation time, the compiler does not know
what sort of object [self.sequent objectAtIndex:lineCount-1] is - but
at runtime it turns out to be of type DeductionLine and so that's why
everything runs smoothly? But when there is the explicit cast
accomplished by (DeductionLine *), the compiler then knows what sort
of object [self.sequent objectAtIndex:lineCount-1] is?
When you say the compiler doesn't know which "justification" is going
to apply - I take it this is because the Justification object has a
justification method. How is it confused, since the class name begins
with a capital, and the method begins with a miniscule? Thanks again.
On 20-Mar-08, at 4:16 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
On Mar 20, 2008, at 15:25, K. Darcy Otto wrote:
So, I seem to be having a problem with the following code, and I
think I've traced it to how the messages are nested; but I cannot
seem to solve it. Consider the following code, which works without
warnings (self.sequent is an NSArray):
DeductionLine *dl1 = [self.sequent objectAtIndex:lineCount-1];
Justification *j1 = [dl1 justification];
NSString *rule1 = [j1 rule];
But the following line generates a warning: NSString may not
respond to -rule.
NSString *rule2 = [[[self.sequent objectAtIndex:lineCount-1]
justification] rule];
I'm confused about the warning, because [[self.sequent
objectAtIndex:lineCount-1] justification] returns type
Justification, not NSString. Both examples compile and work; but
the warning is in the second case only. Why, and how can I get rid
of the warning? Any help would be appreciated. (I think I've
included everything necessary to diagnose the problem; please let
me know if I haven't; all of this is under Objective-C 2.0 with
@synthesize sequent in DeductionLine.)
It sure looks like the compiler is complaining about the wrong thing.
The real problem is that [self.sequent objectAtIndex:lineCount-1] is
of type 'id' and the compiler doesn't know which 'justification' is
going to apply to it, so it doesn't know the return type of that, so
it doesn't know the type of object that 'rule' is being sent to. If
you want to write it in one line, you need:
NSString *rule2 = [[(DeductionLine *)[self.sequent
objectAtIndex:lineCount-1] justification] rule];
to get rid of the warning.
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