Re: PATCH: Find more ObjC methods

[Ziemowit Laski]

On Friday, Oct 3, 2003, at 02:45 US/Pacific, Markus Hitter wrote:

> Am Freitag, 03.10.03 um 04:10 Uhr schrieb Alexander Malmberg:
>
> > Ziemowit Laski wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > in the long run, the compiler should stop distinguishing @interfaces 
> > > from
> > > @implementations (since the former are merely forward declarations 
> > > for the latter).
> >
> > I've always considered this a feature. The @interface is the public 
> > interface for an @implementation. Thus, methods that appear only in 
> > an implementation are private to that implementation.

Thing is, the "private" @implementation-only methods will still be 
found by the runtime. :-)
> It will stay there as a feature unless you get rid of header files at 
> all and #include the whole source when using a library.

Sorry for not stating my thoughts more clearly.  I wasn't thinking of 
changing the language (or its usage) at all.  :-)  All I was saying 
that the ObjC front-end need not construct separate data structures 
(_internally_) for @interfaces and @implementations; there is a lot of 
useless duplication going on...

--Zem
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Ziemowit Laski                 1 Infinite Loop, MS 301-2K
Mac OS X Compiler Group        Cupertino, CA USA  95014-2083
Apple Computer, Inc.           +1.408.974.6229  Fax .5477