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Re: isKindOf: and IsKindOfClassNamed: problems

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From: Alex Blakemore
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:34
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In article <1992Sep28.062357.11948@doberman.uucp> doberman!mike@esunix.sim.es.com writes:> 
>-   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.

this and the other name changes are described in the developer
release notes which are on line.  rationale is provided.

the behavior you found in gdb may make more sense after you
read those notes. 

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