isKindOf: vs. isClassX methods

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Wed Oct 10 21:15:40 UTC 2001


"Eddie Cottongim" <cottonsqueak at earthlink.net> is widely believed to have written:

> Am I
> missing any other considerations ?
Not to suggest that you don't know this, but it always seems that plenty
of people don't - use of isKindOf: or respondsTo: or isRhinoceros is
usually a warning sign of bad design. It costs you kharma points, rots
your critical faculties and reduces your attractiveness to the
appropriate gender/species.

tim
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Error 13: Illegal brain function. Process terminated.





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