Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Re: SyncServices and RubyCocoa

[Jonathan P. <jp...@dc...>]

On 5 Dec 2005, at 22:53, Rupert BARROW wrote:

> Funnily enough, I am fiddling with Apple's SyncServices tutorial :  
> when their Objective-C example sets @"YES", the == test works well,  
> whereas when I set "YES" from Ruby, the == test fails; however the  
> isEqualString succeeds !

The string literal @"YES" in the Objective C source will get interned  
by the linker (and so is the very same object).

The conversion from a ruby string "YES" to Objective C involves the  
creation of a new NSString object, so it'll never match up.