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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ #title Objective-CL Development Diary #desc Random news from the Objective-CL lab -; Time-stamp: <2008-03-23 12:56:15 mulk> +; Time-stamp: <2008-03-23 14:10:56 mulk> ; ; C-c i t insert-time-stamp ; C-c C-t muse-project-publish-this-file @@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ Assuming =MLKFnord= is a Lisp-backed Objective-C class which =mulk= is an instance of, and =MLKSlack= is a Lisp-backed superclass of =MLKFnord=, then the call =[mulk foo: 10 bar: nil]= is done as follows: - 1. =MLKFnord's= =foo=:bar: callback is entered. + 1. =MLKFnord's= =foo:bar:= callback is entered. - 2. The callback calls (#/foo:bar: 'mlk-fnord mulk 10 nil). + 2. The callback calls =(#/foo:bar: 'mlk-fnord mulk 10 nil)=. 3. The generic function computes an effective method for these arguments and calls it. @@ -69,15 +69,15 @@ I'm experimenting with an alternative approach that does away with the extra class name argument. Here are some random thoughts (which may be completely wrong), in no particular order: - * For **call-next-method** to be useful in a multiple inheritance setting, + - For **call-next-method** to be useful in a multiple inheritance setting, Objective-C classes must be last in the class precedence list, because =NSObject's= version of a method will never call **super** and therefore the call chain will always end there, regardless of what we do on the Lisp side. - * A method's definition class must be stored in its method metaobject. + - A method's definition class must be stored in its method metaobject. - * A callback needs to call **compute-applicable-methods**, remove all + - A callback needs to call **compute-applicable-methods**, remove all methods up to the "current" one (which is the first one with the callback's class as the definition class, that is, the class named by what is now the artificial class name argument that makes **super** calls |