Is @selector(foo:) constant?

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From: Ian Flanigan
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 18:08

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Today I was trying to manually initialize an array that would associate a bunch  
of selectors.  I tried:

static unsigned int my_array[][3] =
{
   { 1, @selector(foo:), @selector(bar) },
   ...
}

The compiler came back and said:
   initializer for static variable is not constant
So I tried making it non-static.  No good.  (Didn't think it would help :-)  It  
therefore appears that @selector(foo:) does not generate something constant.   
Does anyone know what it _does_ generate?  Anyone have a better idea than to  
use strings and sel_getUid() instead?

Thanks.

--
Ian Flanigan		"You can never have too many napkins."

Project Zeus
Washington University in St. Louis
flan@starling.wustl.edu

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