Re: [Pyobjc-dev] [ pyobjc-Bugs-836247 ] NSWindow.contentRectForFrameRect_styleMask_ not a class meth

[Jack J. <Jac...@cw...>]

On 5 Nov 2003, at 23:44, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>> NSObject.foo()  				# smart decision by the selector (smarter than 
>>> instance if it has one, see previous email)
>>> NSObject.foo.classMethod() 		# classmethod
>>> NSObject.foo.instanceMethod() 	# instanceMethod
>>
>> That would make "NSObject.foo" a funny sort of object. In the current 
>> scheme NSObject.foo is a perfectly normal object, either an unbound 
>> method or a class method.
>
> Except that it has a signature, isClassMethod, etc.  It's not a 
> perfectly normal object, it's a selector instance.  One of the big 
> "selling points" of ObjC is that you can pretty much translate ObjC 
> code to Python, this is a stumbling block I think we should work 
> around.

Hmm, you have a point. If I look at this then sometimes I agree with 
you, sometimes I agree with myself. It really depends on whether you 
take a Pythonic view or on ObjC-view.
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