Tag Archives: objective-c

Almost elegant cave man debugging

Recently, the Twitternets pointed me at Vincent Gable’s blog post, The Most Useful Objective-C Code I’ve Ever Written. It is indeed quite useful; given a semi-arbitrary expression, it prints out the value, using @encode() and macros to minimize drudgery.

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Proposal: generics (and some other stuff) for Objective-C

Some time ago, Greg Parker asked the Twitternets what we’d like to see in a purely hypothetical Objective-C-without-the-C language. Someone — I believe it was Landon Fuller — pointed at an article about the Strongtalk type system for Smalltalk. I … Continue reading

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