Re: using selectors

[Paul Johnson]

I've battled long and hard with this problem and lots of peoples
ideas about it are discussed in the online faq.
http://valinux.pols.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/SwarmFaq.html

It even has Benedikt's swarm meditation exercise, which I
use all the time.  Look for the headings "complaining about
M:()" and stuff like that

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:

> >>>>> "JM" == James Marshall <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> JM> [alleleGraph createSequence: "Total population" withFeedFrom:
> JM> [epdSwarm getWorld] andSelector: M(getWorldPopulation)];
> 
> The signature of a method with an argument would look like this:
> 
>    getWorldPopulationFor:
> 
> to get that selector these are equivalent:
> 
>    M(getWorldPopulationFor:)
>    @selector(getWorldPopulationFor:)
> 
> Unfortunately, as it is now, the message probe (i.e. ActiveGraph) that ends
> up getting used is created internally in EZGraph, and not accessible for
> frobbing the arguments.
> 
> JM> now I need to know how to pass a parameter along with the message
> JM> (an integer in my case). 
> 
> What is the purpose of the integer?
> 
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