Coming from a Delphi background I’m highly spoiled by the feature that you do noe need to explicitly mark each and every use of a reference, pointer or class type as being a pointer: they always are, so Delphi implicitly knows. No need for a ^reference marker there (yes, there are a few corner case exceptions to this rule).
The same holds for .NET languages: they know when a type is a reference type, no need for those extra characters.
The Objective-C compiler – used for building cocoa applications in xCode – doesn’t know, so you have to include a star whenever a type is to be used as a pointer.
For instance, this will yield a compiler error “Cannot use object as a parameter to a method“: Read the rest of this entry »
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