Re: [Pyobjc-dev] 1.3/svn: not bridging NSNumber breakage

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

 
On Friday, February 11, 2005, at 05:02PM, Pierce T.Wetter III <pi...@ma...> wrote:

>>  It might be prudent to create subclasses of int, float and long 
>> anyway if we want to make sure that roundtripping NSNumber objects 
>> from objc to python and back will retain object identity.
>
>   High level question:
>
>   Is it truly important that round-tripping objects from objc to python 
>and back retains object identity, or does this requirement need to be 
>pushed back, given that it can be kind of assumed that a "bridge" is 
>going to do a certain amount of "magic".

Retaining identity is important for some objects because some Cocoa code uses object identity. It's also important for serializing stuff. The bridge will be better at retaining identity in the future, not worse.

Ronald