> It's a compiler - a source-to-source compiler, yes, but still a compiler. This was kind of my original point. The very first version wasn't a compiler, just

> It's a compiler - a source-to-source compiler, yes, but still a compiler. This was kind of my original point. The very first version wasn't a compiler, just a collection of pre-processor macros. I didn't have the opportunity to work with the language back when the bracket syntax was still macro'ed, but there were still some design warts in ObjC when I started before gcc was modified to support more modern, Java-like extensions to the language.... (I've written code that used the macro based NS_DURING/NS_HANDLER/NS_ENDHANLDER instead of the modern compiled @try/@catch/@finally version.)