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What do you get out of subclassing NSDictionary or NSArray that you don't get out of a category?

• reidmain 14y ago
  Well in this case I subclassed them so I could have the backing data source only weakly reference the items in the dictionary/array and because I subclassed them I can use them wherever NSDictionary or NSArray is an accepted parameter. Apple's documentation also gives some examples: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSArray_Class/NSArray.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000137-740795 https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa... https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSDictionary_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000140-DontLinkElementID_1 https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa...
  • Zev 14y ago
    Why not use CFDictionaryRef and pass it along via toll-free bridging?
    • reidmain 14y ago
      I'm confused. How is that any easier? It's six of one, half dozen of the other. I'd much prefer to write Objective-C code than pure C.