Re: [Pyobjc-dev] More on integer values

[Bob I. <bo...@re...>]

On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 19:46 America/New_York, David Eppstein wrote:

> I just hit an error in my code; looks like the following scenario 
> happened:
> 1. My code passed an integer value to 
> undoManager.prepareWithInvocationTarget_
> 2. I invoked an undo.
> 3. undoManager called my code with an NSCFInteger in place of the 
> integer
> (so far, no problem...)
> 4. my code used that value as the column parameter of
> NSTableView.editColumn_row_withEvent_select_
> 5. TypeError: expected an integer for argument 1: its typespec is 'i12'
>
> As usual, the workaround is to wrap the value in an int(), but
> shouldn't an objc integer be allowed to be used for this typespec?

Well, from ObjC I would say no, if it expects an integer, it should get 
an int.  int and NSNumber aren't interchangable on the ObjC side of 
things.

-bob