Re: objc_next_class

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, June 14, 2002, at 08:52 AM, Nicola Pero wrote:

> > I'm not sure what the original problem is, but just in case it's not
> > obvious, the code would fail (as Nicola notes below) because it would
> > raise an exception and crash as it iterates past the Object class -
> > NSLog() uses the -description method to log the class 'cl', but Object
> > does not respond ot that method. I don't know where Object would
> > appear in the iterated list (I'd have expected it to be right at one
> > end).
> >
> > Perhaps we should add a category of Object in GNUstep-base, to 
> > implement
> > -description for it?
>
> interesting idea :-)
>
> technically we also need to add respondsToSelector:
>
> I'm not sure what's best - maybe being able to remove Object and company
> from libobjc would be the real solution :-)

I already added +description, -description and -respondsToSelector:

Removal of Object might be nice ... but we use Protocol, wo we would 
have to
replace it with a version which inherits from NSObject.