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Re: [PATCH] Objective-C : Do not accept an object as parameter to a method

From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
To: Nicola Pero <nicola at brainstorm dot co dot uk>
Cc: Devang Patel <dpatel at apple dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:28:34 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Objective-C : Do not accept an object as parameter to a method
References: <79B3597C-896E-11D6-ACF9-00039310EDEA@apple.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0206271045260.6667-100000@nicola.brainstorm.co.uk>

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:02:38AM +0100, Nicola Pero wrote:
> 
> An object is declared as in (NSObject *) [it's really a pointer to the
> actual object] - and unless you do low-level things such as casting it to
> a pointer to an appropriate struct etc which you can always do - you must
> always pass around pointers/references to objects, rather than the objects
> themselves.

That seems to me like an unfortunate limitation of the language, to be
corrected, but if it's so and really not a problem, then yeah, the
original patch makes sense.

zw

References:
- Re: [PATCH] Objective-C : Do not accept an object as parameter to a method
  - From: Devang Patel
- Re: [PATCH] Objective-C : Do not accept an object as parameter toa method
  - From: Nicola Pero

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