Re: Recent key-value encoding changes to NSObject.

[Richard]

Manuel Guesdon wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to make these 2 functions public (or at least not static) ?
>         static void GSSetValue(NSObject *self, NSString *key, id val, SEL 
> sel, const char *type, unsigned size, unsigned off);
>         static id GSGetValue(NSObject *self, NSString *key, SEL sel; const 
> char *type, unsigned size, unsigned off)


I was thinking about that ... and had thought it might make sense to
provide
some variant of them.

I was also considering changing the api of the existing ivar access
methods to
make them more efficient by using cStrings.
But I'm not sure whether non-ascii characters will ever be valid in
selector
and variable names.

> BTW, as KVC in GNUstep is in core not in EOF, there's actually some missing 
> parts in core: NSarray, NSDictionary and NSMutableDictionary
> implements valueForKey:
> Is it possible to add this to base so this part will be complete and 
> NSArray/NSDictionary will be conform to specs ?

Surely ... if there's anything missing I'd consider it a bug.


Are you going to FOSDEM?  We could talk about this there.