<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On May 30, 2014, at 11:41 , Argyrios Kyrtzidis <<a href="mailto:kyrtzidis@apple.com">kyrtzidis@apple.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">On May 30, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Argyrios Kyrtzidis <<a href="mailto:kyrtzidis@apple.com">kyrtzidis@apple.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">On May 30, 2014, at 11:13 AM, jahanian <<a href="mailto:fjahanian@apple.com">fjahanian@apple.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>Is this intentional, or a specific case for retain/release methods?<br></blockquote><br>This also returns TRUE:<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>blk b = ^{};<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>BOOL res = [b respondsToSelector:@selector(isKindOfClass:)];<br><br>So blocks seem to respond to NSObject protocol selectors.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">In generally though it makes no sense<br>to allow qualified id conversion of blocks pointers.<br></blockquote><br>It would make sense for id<NSObject> if we would guarantee that blocks conform to NSObject protocol.<br></blockquote><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">BTW, returns true as well:</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">blk b = ^{};</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">BOOL res = [b conformsToProtocol:@protocol(NSObject)];</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>And for a long time this also returned true:</div><div><br></div><div>[[NSArray array] isKindOfClass:[NSMutableArray class]];</div><div><br></div><div>Just because the <i>current implementation</i> provides this functionality doesn't mean it's something that people should be using.</div><div><br></div><div>Jordan</div></body></html>