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In article <mdixon.714778520@thelonius> mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike  
Dixon) writes:
>  ** 3.0 Incompatibility Alert! **
>  
>  a few days ago i wrote:
>  
>      the trick is that although @selector(foo:) isn't constant,
>      &@selector(foo:) is.  initialize your array with the addresses  
of
>      the selectors, and remember to dereference them before you use
>      them.
>  
>  while this was true in 2.0, a new version of the TextORama  
MiniExample
>  that appeared today in the archives suggests that it's no longer  
true
>  in 3.0 (i'm not a beta tester, so i can't confirm it).  it appears
>  that even the addresses of @selector expressions are no longer
>  constant; to make this kind of code work in 3.0 you'll have to  
build
>  the array at runtime (with calls to sel_getUid -- see the new
>  TextORama for details).

Well, I just wrote and ran a small test program.  It seems that  
&@selector(foo) is still constant.  (Yeah!)  I used NS3.0 PR2, but I  
suspect that it's the same across all of 'em.

If you want to try it for yourself, here's a small bit-o-program for  
ya:
mytest.tar.Z :  

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Washington University in St. Louis
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