Le 1 juil. 2010 à 19:30, Jonathon Kuo a écrit :

> 
> On Jul 1, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 1, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Jonathon Kuo <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jul 1, 2010, at 7:56 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>>> 
>>>> "Instance methods defined in a root class can be performed both by 
>>>> instances
>>>> and by class objects. Therefore, all class objects have access to the
>>>> instance methods defined in the root class."
>>> 
>>> Not that it would generally be USEFUL to do so, since the purpose of an 
>>> instance is to hold instance variable values; a class object accessing 
>>> instance variables through an instance method would come up with 
>>> uninitialized ivar values, no?
>> 
>> They are instances of the root class, so they have all the root class 
>> instances variables, of which there is precisely one: isa.
> 
> Interesting... so what happens at runtime if a class object invokes an 
> instance method that accesses instance variables? Exception? Assertion? Seg 
> fault?

It just works. isa is a valid pointer on the expected type, even for classes.

-- Jean-Daniel




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