On Dec 11, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > Stream of consciousness answer; I don't have time to make it self-consistent.
> With the return type defined as id, the declaration > > NSAtrributedString * attrString = [NSAttributedString string]; > > is not merely useful, but legal without a downcast. And, indeed, you did not make it self-consistent. The above code snippet is neither useful nor legal. NSAttributedString is not a subclass of NSString and has no +string class method. For the -string instance method it does have, it would not be safe to assign it to a pointer to NSAttributedString, because it's not an NSAttributedString. Regards, Ken _______________________________________________ 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
