Re: getClass

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "JM" == Marshall James <address@hidden> writes:

JM> can anyone give me some info on how getClass can be used? I'd
JM> like to be able to see if an object is of a certain type and act
JM> on this information, but I'm not sure exactly how I'd go about
JM> this. 

Something like this:

if ([obj getClass] == [MyClass getClass])
  {
  }

JM> What exactly does getClass return anyway?

The same thing as you'd get from "[obj class]" -- the Objective C
structure that describes the layout of the object, the protocols that
the object will implement, etc.

The reason for the Swarm-specific interfaces to Objective C are not
something I especially want to advocate, but it has to do with a
historical desire to make Swarm provide all of it's own
runtime support in more of an object-oriented way, independent of
libobjc.a.

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