Re: [Camelbones-devel] Equality

[Sherm P. <sh...@do...>]

On Feb 4, 2004, at 6:01 AM, Tom Insam wrote:

> Everything I see is blessed as an NSObject...

Oh, right, of course. That was changed in 0.3.0-pre, and the change 
hasn't found its way into the main branch yet. I'm still trying to 
reconcile the two branches in my head... Sorry!

As you've seen, in the current release, Perl wrappers are always 
blessed into the NSObject package, so that's what Perl's ref() function 
returns. To work around this, you can call NSObject's className method 
to get the class of the wrapped native object:

my $class = $obj->className();

On the other paw, "proper" OOP principles dictate that you should 
rarely (if ever) need to know the class of the object to which you're 
sending messages. I'm no fan of "OO purity" for its own sake, but it 
*might* be worth asking *why* you need to know the class.

sherm--