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Re: isKindOf: and IsKindOfClassNamed: problems

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From: Tim McClarren
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 04:26
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alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:

>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. 

Well, I can't seem to find a rationale for the changes, although I 
did find them documented in ObjC.rtf in the Developer Release Notes.
I am having the same problem as the original poster.  And the Release Notes
don't make the behavior any clearer to me.  I should think that these
things should both return YES or both return NO.  Any other clues?

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