Objective-C

Any Objective-C programmers here?

I'm reading up on dot notation. How come this

[object method:arg1, arg2]

can't be replaced by

object.method(arg1, arg2);

??

It's a macro for sepples

Objective-C reminds me of my own vomit after I've eaten curry.

>>1
If you want to program Java, go program Java.

Objective-J#

Objective-C uses smalltalk style OO instead of Sepples or Java style OO, so the syntax is also based on Smalltalk.

hay everyone laern ruby its so aewsome and then we can have discussions about ruby.

>>1
Also, normal ObjC methods look like
[object method:arg1 secondPar:arg2];
Parameters separated by commas are only used for variadic methods.

>>1
Because SmalltalkObjective-C uses labeled arguments.

obj.method("bar", NULL, NULL, TRUE, 17, "quux");

vs.

[obj method:"bar" stackroot:NULL pizza:NULL macfag:TRUE aids:17 duckname:"quux"];
Objective-C object pointers are dynamically typed under the hood, so this is the only way to overload method names anyway.

>>9
Dynamically typed? What the fuck?

So Objectivist-C is Ruby with a C syntax. Great. No wonder Macs are so much slower.

apple is retarded
>>10

>>9
Objective-C object pointers are dynamically typed under the hood, so this is the only way to overload method names anyway.

That is to say, the parameter names are part of the signature of the selector, so hax:my:anus: refers to a different selector than hax:your:anus:

>>9

So you're saying that I *can't* do

obj.method("bar", NULL, NULL, TRUE, 17, "quux");

in Objective-C 2.0? Then how come I've seen code with dot notation in Objective-C 2.0 with stuff like

obj.foo = 42;

?

>>13
In Objective-C 2.0 the dot operator can be used as shorthand for accessing object properties.

i = obj.foo is shorthand for i = [obj foo]

and

obj.foo = i is shorthand for [obj setFoo:i]

And it really only is shorthand - the same things will happen under the hood. If you're unfamiliar with Objective-C and the Foundation framework you'll probably think this is terrible!, but this is what makes e.g. key-value coding work. And that shit is where the V-TEC really kicks in, yo.

>>14
V-TEC
I think you mean AIDS