Yep, I understand what it does. I’m trying to get the same class-or-subclass behavior during compilation. I’d looked at the stack overflow article earlier, so I’ll check out the Swift forum to see what’s there. Thanks.
> On Nov 11, 2019, at 4:43 PM, Quincey Morris > <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote: > >> On Nov 11, 2019, at 15:07 , Steve Christensen via Cocoa-dev >> <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com <mailto:cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com>> wrote: >> >> Some existing Obj-C methods are of the form: >> >> + (nullable __kindof NSManagedObject) someFooThing; >> >> Right now I have >> >> class var someFooThing: NSManagedObject? > > AFAIK, “__kindof” only affects the ability to assign one Obj-C class pointer > to a variable of a different but compatible (kind of) type. It doesn’t change > the actual type of the variable, nor does it (again AFAIK) change the ability > to assign without errors in Swift. Also see here for some informative > discussion: > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31399208/ios-kindof-nsarray > <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31399208/ios-kindof-nsarray> > > I suggest you ask about this on forums.swift.org <http://forums.swift.org/>. > If there’s an alternative, someone there will know. _______________________________________________ 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
