Re: method naming

2008-07-29 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Jul 29, 2008, at 7:41 PM, Torsten Curdt wrote: So I did't get why this should be ambiguous because NSApp obviously can't be of type id. Well turns out - it actually is. And now it all makes sense again :) I've just replaced [NSApp ..] with [[NSApplication sharedApplication] ...] Glad

Re: method naming

2008-07-29 Thread Torsten Curdt
The compiler doesn't know what class the object belongs to. You're sending the message either to a variable of type id or the result of a method that returned id.The id type can hold any class, so if there are two identically named methods with different signatures (BOOL return type vs. voi

Re: method naming

2008-07-29 Thread Charles Steinman
--- On Tue, 7/29/08, Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Class A has method > > - (void) something:(Someclass*)s; > > Class B has method > > - (BOOL) something:(Someclass*)s; > > Why on earth am I getting a warning > > warning: multiple methods named '-something:' > found > usi

Re: method naming

2008-07-29 Thread Roland King
|-Wselector |(Objective-C and Objective-C++ only) Warn if multiple methods of different types for the same selector are found during compilation. The check is performed on the list of methods in the final stage of compilation. Additionally, a check is performed for each selector appea