Phil Tomson wrote:
> In article <UFgMc.2791$cL3.2428 / newssvr15.news.prodigy.com>,
> Gully Foyle  <nospam / nospamnospamnospam.com> wrote:
>>Support for blocks in Objective-C described here (its been tested with 
>>POCS, not sure how many other compilers support this):
>>
>>   http://users.pandora.be/stes/block98/index.html
> 
> I could be wrong, but I don't believe that the gcc Objective C compiler 
> supports this and it is the most widely used compiler for Obj C (and it's 
> essentially what is used on the Mac platform for compiing Obj C/cocoa).

You're not wrong.  The writer of POC has decided to go his own way with 
the Objective-C language, starting with the original Stepstone compiler. 
  He also reviles Apple's additions since Stepstone at every breath; 
check out comp.lang.objective-c for any length of time.  So, no matter 
how interesting some of his extensions are, you'll never be able to 
integrate them with Apple ObjC short of forking his source.

Plus, last time I checked, the GNU runtime is based on a version of 
NeXT's runtime *before* they switched to NSObject and the whole NS* 
class hierarchy.

So the subset of Objective-C that compiles with GCC, POC, and Apple is 
vanishingly small ....

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