Version flag usage? [Re: id foobar & temp. portability]

[Ken Cline]

On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:

> >>>>> "PH" == Parviez HosseiniC <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> PH> How temporary is this temporary portability?
> 
> Within the scope of Objective C, it would be permanent in the sense
> that the lack of protocol restrictions on the objects in an
> application header file would not yield warning messages or a
> malfunction.  But it is desirable to add the protocol information
> (that will appear in swarm-1.2), because then compiler can check for
> misuse of the conforming objects.  If you want to use that snapshot, I
> propose the unqualified object usage because you probably want to be
> able to have compatibility with swarm-1.1 until then (which uses
> static typing).

Could you use the VERSION variable to do conditional
precompilation?  I don't recall this being described
anywhere, is it appropriate to use VERSION?

Is there also a global version variable that can be
used at runtime?  I see "swarm_version" in
objectbase/Arguments, is this a new feature?

Thanks,

Ken.

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