On 26 Jan 2010, at 17:28, Jens Alfke wrote:
>
> On Jan 26, 2010, at 8:08 AM, jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote:
>
>> Is this just one of the things we have to put up with as the price for
>> dynamism or can this problem be pre-empted?
>> I added a name space prefix to my method definition and the exception
>> departed.
>
> Yes. To avoid these kinds of collisions, if you add a category method to an
> external class you should add some sort of hopefully-unique prefix to its
> name. In my Mooseyard software I use the same prefix I use for my class names
> ("MY") only lowercased, with an underscore — e.g. -[NSString my_rot13].
>
Thanks Jens.
That's a point of good practice that I don't currently follow. Once bitten etc.
Jonathan
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