Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Re: Making List<->Array bridging transparent

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Right -- and we absolutely must preserve the class hierarchy.  That is, 
if something is to be used transparently as an array on the ObjC side 
of the bridge, it must be a subclass of NSArray.  Many things do 
'isKindOfClass:' style tests to figure out what kind of collection/data 
they are looking at.   As well, NSArray provides the transparent 
bridging into the CFArray API-- the CF* APIs are used to implement a 
good chunk of the functionality found in the Foundation and AppKit.

b.bum

On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 09:11 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> That would work, but then NSArray would no longer by a subclass of 
> NSObject. This will probably cause subtle bugs and won't buy us much 
> in the long run. Especially because this will be a non-issue in Python 
> 2.3: I filed a bug-report related to this and the bug was fixed within 
> a day :-)