On Mar 15, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Jeff Laing wrote: > As I recall, sending variables of type id<YourProtocol> useful messages like > retain and release generate a compiler warning, whereas > NSObject<YourProtocol> are fine. > > I could be wrong on this, but I definitely recall thinking it was a stupid > compiler behavior.
This is because you didn't declare your protocol as extending the NSObject protocol. If you do something like this: @protocol MyProtocol<NSObject> Then you can call all the NSObject stuff without warning. -- David Duncan Apple DTS Animation and Printing _______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com