On Jan 14, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Charles Srstka <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> wrote:

> On Jan 14, 2013, at 2:38 PM, Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote:
> 
>> Given that Gordon's explicit use case involves one part of his app
>> setting up timers that point at objects in other parts of his app that
>> know nothing of the timers' existence, this sounds like a fragility
>> nightmare.
>> 
>> The NSTimer ship has sailed.
> 
> I don't really see it. All you'd need would be a special initializer or 
> convenience constructor, like +[NSMapTable strongToWeakObjectsMapTable]. Make 
> versions of the +timerWithTimeInterval:etc:etc: classes which would cause the 
> created NSTimer to weakly retain its target, and it'd just work. 


I'm still holding out hope for @doWhatIWant. Stop being so lazy, Apple.

Preston
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