Re: PATCH: Find more ObjC methods

[David Ayers <d dot ayers at inode dot at>]

Pete French wrote:

> There is also a convention of not shoveling loads of things into the same
> source file in ObjC too though. If you stuck to one file per object or category
> then the problem doesnt arise. I would have said the new behaviour is very
> sensible - i.e. if a method on a class is visible in a source file then it is
> understood to be avaialble throughout the rest of the source file. Indeed,
> thats how I thought it already worked, and was rather siurprised to find it
> doesnt!
>
> The new behaviour seems 1) very reasonable and 2) enirely consistent with what
> C does. If you follow the convention of each category in its own source
> file then you get the same warnings you do now.
>  

There are good reasons to #include/#import several implementation files 
into a single compilation unit. (e.g. access to static global 
variable/functions).  We use this in several larger projects, where the 
files can be maintained by different developers.  So even if this isn't 
reverted (and I do conceed to the new behavior in the sense that it is 
/using/ the prototype), I hope a patch that will introduce an optional 
warning with a more accurate warning would be acceptable.

Cheers,
David