On Jul 18, 2012, at 11:06 AM, Graham Cox wrote: > > On 19/07/2012, at 12:57 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote: > >> How do you automatically know its type if you know its name? I'm interested >> to understand the "why" of that statement. > > > Because it tells you the type right there in the @property declaration! >
Ah, yes, when coding, of course. For some reason, I was expecting that during runtime/debugging, if you know the name of an object or you are accessing a object your coworker wrote there was some concept that instantly told you its class and makeup. > If you're expecting a string and the object returns an array, who's at fault? > Not you. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) 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 arch...@mail-archive.com