isKindOf: and IsKindOfClassNamed: problems

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From: dobermanmike Mike Panzitta
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 06:23

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Has anyone noted these problems with the above methods:

-  First, in 2.x the second method was called isKindOfGivenName: and
   is now isKindOfClassNamed: in 3.0.  No warning or anything that I'm
   aware of indicated this change, and there is no backwards
   compatibility.

-  Second, and more important, I have discovered in a program (actually
   interactively within GDB) this interesting phenomena:

   (gdb) print [aClassObject isKindOf:[Process class]]
   $6 = 0
   (gdb) print [aClassObject isKindOfClassNamed:"Process"]
   $7 = 1

   The second case is the one that is correct.

Any answers or insight?  Thanks in advance,

-Mike

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Mike Panzitta
Doberman Systems
doberman!mike@uunet.uu.net (NeXTMail)

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