Ashley,
I don't know how I could have been so dense. I had read that section
at least a dozen times, but somehow it never sank in. I was so
fixated on getting alternative methods of accessing ordered
collections that I'd skipped over the fact that by definition
'alternative' means "will
The documentation[1] about accessor search order shows that it will
prefer a method named - over the corresponding -countOf and -
objectInAtIndex: methods.
Specifically you should read the section about the search pattern for
valueForKey. The mutableArrayValueForKey proxy only details how ar