ifNotNil:

Bob Arning arning at charm.net
Fri Jun 16 22:26:17 UTC 2000


On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:47:52 -0400 spair at advantive.com (Stephen Pair) wrote:
>Altering #valueWithArguments: is a good way to play with the concept, but
>wouldn't the performance penalty there be high enough that you would want to
>avoid calling a block without an exact match on the number of parameters?

I guess than depends on how often it got called. As I seem to recall this was used in events (or semantic messages, maybe) so that it might not be as frequent as #do:. #select: and the like, which would typically have exactly the right number.

Cheers,
Bob





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