Re: Scrub last - better patch....

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 01:01 PM, Pete French wrote:

> > All the other methods should already be implemented in NSString.m in
> > terms of those primitives.
>
> Are there any existing subclasses of NSString which use these methods

Not that I know of.

> that I could use for testing, or is it best to actually make my own 
> subclass
> for testing purposes ? Currently it sounds like these implementations 
> are
> there "just in case" someone makes an NSString subclass rather than 
> actually
> being used by any of the current code.

Yes, it's a mix ... some of the NSString.m methods are re-implemented 
in concrete classes and others aren't (the most commonly used ones are 
generally reimplemented by subclasses for performance).