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/** Declaration of extension methods for base additions
Copyright (C) 2003-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by: Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
and: Adam Fedor <fedor@gnu.org>
This file is part of the GNUstep Base Library.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
Boston, MA 02111 USA.
*/
#ifndef INCLUDED_NSObject_GNUstepBase_h
#define INCLUDED_NSObject_GNUstepBase_h
#import <GNUstepBase/GSVersionMacros.h>
#import <Foundation/NSObject.h>
#if defined(__cplusplus)
extern "C" {
#endif
#if OS_API_VERSION(GS_API_NONE,GS_API_LATEST)
@interface NSObject (GNUstepBase)
/**
* Message sent when an implementation wants to explicitly exclude a method
* (but cannot due to compiler constraint), and wants to make sure it is not
* called by mistake. Default implementation raises an exception at runtime.
*/
- (id) notImplemented: (SEL)aSel;
/**
* Message sent when an implementation wants to explicitly require a subclass
* to implement a method (but cannot at compile time since there is no
* <code>abstract</code> keyword in Objective-C). Default implementation
* raises an exception at runtime to alert developer that he/she forgot to
* override a method.
*/
- (id) subclassResponsibility: (SEL)aSel;
/**
* Message sent when an implementation wants to explicitly exclude a method
* (but cannot due to compiler constraint) and forbid that subclasses
* implement it. Default implementation raises an exception at runtime. If a
* subclass <em>does</em> implement this method, however, the superclass's
* implementation will not be called, so this is not a perfect mechanism.
*/
- (id) shouldNotImplement: (SEL)aSel;
/**
WARNING: The -compare: method for NSObject is deprecated
due to subclasses declaring the same selector with
conflicting signatures.
Comparision of arbitrary objects is not just meaningless
but also dangerous as most concrete implementations
expect comparable objects as arguments often accessing
instance variables directly.
This method will be removed in a future release.
*/
- (NSComparisonResult) compare: (id)anObject;
@end
#endif /* OS_API_VERSION */
#if defined(__cplusplus)
}
#endif
#endif /* INCLUDED_NSObject_GNUstepBase_h */