[wellylug] Re: GNUStep

[David Antliff]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Phillip Hutchings wrote:
> Oh, and make use of delegates. Before you subclass, always check if
> you can do it with delegates.

Hi Phillip, nice reply :)

The only reference to delegates I can find in the Objective-C docs is in 
the glossary:

"An object that acts on behalf of another object."

This is also called a Proxy (re. IPC) I think. However I can't quite work 
out how this relates to the decision of whether to subclass or not...

Perhaps there's another term in the documentation that better matches 
'delegate' ? The closest thing I can think of that matches your 
description is a Category?

Sorry, still an ObjC n00b...  ;)

-- 
David.