D'oh, I see that point was already made.

--Andy

On May 19, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Andy Lee wrote:

Another difference between delegates and observers is that delegates sometimes have the power of veto over some operation (e.g., - applicationShouldTerminate: and -textShouldEndEditing:), whereas observers of notifications are merely notified.

--Andy

On May 19, 2008, at 1:41 PM, I. Savant wrote:

I think that was 'observers', not 'Observers'.
(i.e. not in the Cocoa/KVO sense)

Sometimes wonder if we're going to run out of words to describe things
because everything is overloaded with some technical meaning.


Still ... my point is the same. I think this is a semantics argument
waiting to happen ( :-) ) but there is no 'observing' going on, per
se. It's quite literally delegation in its purest sense, which is
distinctly different.

--
I.S.


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