While the method isn't publicly visible to other compilation units, there will be an entry for its selector in the table of selectors that is possessed by each class.
A simple-minded way to do Objective-C method dispatch would be to have an an array, list or tree of structures, with one struct element being the selector and the other being a pointer to the C function that is the actual implement of the method. objc_msgsend() would then search the array, list or tree looking for that selector, then call the C function. When you ask a class if it responds to a selector, the class searches its own table of selector/function pointer pairs, returning YES if it finds a matching selector in the table. I don't really know, but it seems to me that there just *has* to be a way to enumerate all of the elements in those selector tables. If there is, then no method would be private. -- Don Quixote de la Mancha Dulcinea Technologies Corporation Software of Elegance and Beauty http://www.dulcineatech.com quix...@dulcineatech.com _______________________________________________ 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
