On 30 Jan 2014, at 12:53, Rui Pacheco <rui.pach...@gmail.com> wrote: > I too don’t get it. > > And isn’t all this message passing pretty much the same as calling methods in > classes, just like you’d do in Java, C# or C++?
No, they're very different. If you're curious, I blogged how C++ dispatches method calls under the hood in this article: http://orangejuiceliberationfront.com/runtime-time/ The sample code included with it implements the ObjC approach of actually looking stuff up by name. -- Uli Kusterer "The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..." _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com