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Programming in Objective-C, Sixth Edition
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Programming in Objective-C, Sixth Edition

by Stephen G. Kochan
December 2013
Beginner
576 pages
16h 4m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Implementing the <NSCopying> Protocol

If you try to use the copy method on one of your own classes (for example, on your address book) as follows

newBook = [myBook mutableCopy];

you’ll get an error message that looks something like this:

*** -[AddressBook copyWithZone:]:  selector not recognized*** Uncaught exception:*** -[AddressBook copyWithZone:]: selector not recognized

As noted, to implement copying with your own classes, you have to implement one or two methods according to the <NSCopying> protocol.

We now show how you can add a copy method to your Fraction class, which you used extensively in Part I, “The Objective-C Language.” Note that the techniques we describe here for copying ...

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