On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Chris Suter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:03 PM, John Engelhart > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Oct 14, 2008, at 7:11 AM, Chris Suter wrote: >>> >>> You can't override the type for existing methods. For example, >>> initWithString: always returns an id. You can define them as returning >>> something different but the compiler will ignore it. >> >> Just a clarification on this particular point- it is possible to override >> the type(s) of existing methods, both the argument and return types. > > You're quite right. > > What I meant to point out was that you can't easily override init > methods because of the problem with alloc returning id. That was > something I came across a while back which was why I got the details > slightly wrong. :-) >
Presumably you could override +(id)alloc to be +(MyClass)alloc on classes that you knew implemented ambiguous init methods? _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
