Re: isKindOf: - GSObjCIsKindOf

[Laurent Julliard]

Marko Mikulicic wrote:

> Objective-c is based on smalltalk and it seems very strange to me that
> the concept of "kind" is so deviated, unless some important reason
> induced this design decision. Somebody knows why ?
> (Strange, I looked in the specs of OpenStep (on gnustep.org) and in the
> docs of MacOSX and I didn't find a single word on isKindOfClass.)
> 

Yes there is something in the MacOSX doc. See

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/ObjC_classic/Protocols/NSObject.html#//apple_ref/occ/intfm/NSObject/isKindOfClass:

> Marko

Laurent