[Q] perform:orSendTo:

germanmorales at delta-sys.com germanmorales at delta-sys.com
Wed Jun 26 09:20:53 UTC 2002


>The thing that is missing from the comment is not an 
>accurate description of what the method *does* but 
>of what the method is *for* and when you might 
>want to override it.

Yes, that was what puzzled me.
And the fact that Object choose the otherObject
as the target without saying why.

>Given its use, an implementation using 
>#respondsTo: is arguably not well written.
>Just because a class happens to have inherited
>a unary selector doesn't _always_ mean that it 
>intends to have it called as a menu operation.

That's a good point.

I definitely think a better comment would help 
people that sees this method for the first time.

Thanks for you answer, and to Bob also.

German



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